Arts-based Research
I make art to generate new knowledge through research, often on my own but sometimes in collaboration with colleague Dr Emese Hall (University of Exeter). Media is chosen to align with the purpose of each project.
View Emese’s academic profile.
My artist teacher identity, 2022
This is a collaboration with Emese Hall. Our arts-based research project involves creating, sharing and reflecting on artworks in response to the theme 'my artist teacher identity'.
Making the invisible visible (film)
Light and dark, interview preparation notes, pen and tissue paper
Blind spot, deconstructed charcoal box, acrylic paint and biro.
Blind spot 1, photograph inside the reconstructed charcoal box, thread and staples
Blind spot 1, photograph inside the reconstructed charcoal box, thread and staples
Round peg, square hole 2; pen on tracing paper, 18.5cm x 26cm
Round peg, square hole 3; pen on tracing paper, 17.5cm x 27cm
Round peg, square hole 4; pen on tracing paper, 19cm x 23.5cm
Round peg, square hole 5; pen on tracing paper, 24cm x 31cm
Visible, Mixed media (vintage fabric, thread, tracing paper), 25cm x 25cm
Scrunchie, Mixed media (tracing paper, pen, colouring pencils, thread, tape), approx. 16cm x 16cm
Invisible, Mixed media (vintage fabric, thread, tracing paper), 25cm x 25cm
Inside out 1; pen on tracing paper; approx. 10cm x 12cm
Spaces in-between, tracing paper, 10cm x 10cm
Butterfly envelope with poem, Mixed media (vintage fabric, thread, paper, organza bag), 15.5 x 20.5cm
Butterfly envelope with poem, Mixed media (vintage fabric, thread, paper, organza bag), 15.5 x 20.5cm
Butterfly envelope with poem, Mixed media (vintage fabric, thread, paper, organza bag), 15.5 x 20.5cm
Poem, Mixed media (paper, pen, organza bag),
Deconstructed token, Mixed media (yarn, paper, tissue paper, cardboard, thread, ribbon), 22 x 22cm
Artist teacher identity, Mixed media (collaged paper, thread), 21 x 29.5cm
Artist teacher identity, Mixed media (collaged paper, thread), 21 x 29.5cm
Artist teacher identity, Mixed media (collaged paper, thread), 21 x 29.5cm
Shock of the New, 2020
I engaged in an autoethnographic analysis of my working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through reflexive journaling and art practice I documented my experiences of transferring face to face teaching and learning to remote learning platforms.
Part of this artwork is presented through the film ‘Learn, unlearn, relearn’.
Journal article: Payne, R. (2020) Shock of the New, International Journal of Education in Art and Design, 39(4), pp. 724-738; https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12317
Learn, 1 of 3 digital photographs, Textile square, 6 x 6cm
Unlearn, 2 of 3 digital photographs, Deconstructed textile square
Relearn, 3 of 3 digital photographs, Deconstructed textile square reformed into a ball
Threads that bind us, Box made of embroidered fabric & thread, 8 x 8cm
Anti-Neoliberal Booth, 2019-20
This free-standing installation was exhibited at Oxford Brookes University as part of the Think Human Festival. Being given permission to stop in the contemporary university is rare, and so the booth aimed to be an experience that transported people away from the world of work by providing a dignified space to stop for 5 minutes.
Anti-Neoliberal Booth, Installation with fish tank, pump and chair
Fish tank inside the Anti-Neoliberal Booth, Installation with fish tank, pump and chair
Ribbon on the door, Anti-Neoliberal Booth, Installation with fish tank, pump and chair
Drawing a response to the NSEAD’s Survey Report, 2016
Emese and myself were part of a team who designed and interpreted the National Society in Education for Art and Design (NSEAD) survey report 2015-16. We asked over 1100 art educators in England how policy had impacted their experience of delivering the subject in schools. Emese and I presented an artistic response to the survey report through a series of drawings.
Value versus devalue (Rachel Payne), Mixed media (charcoal, paper, thread)
Bleak landscape (Emese Hall), Mixed media (tape, paper, chalk, charcoal)
Exclusion (Emese Hall), Graphite on paper
Timetable (Emese Hall), Mixed media (paper, thread, graphite, pen)
Rebellious energy (Rachel Payne), Mixed media (paper, sellotape, thread)
Restriction (Rachel Payne), Graphite on paper