Born in 1991, Southampton, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.

Anousha Payne works across genres, from sculpture and painting to text and sound. She explores the human pursuit of spirituality in object form as a mode of cultural expression while navigating the liminal space between personal experience, fiction, and myth. Informed by Indian folktales and personal fiction, Payne’s work plays with ideas of the performative power of objects and chance, the combination of moral dilemmas and magic alongside characters with transformative qualities.

In Amorphous Crocodile Study, she continues her exploration of hybrid forms and metamorphic figures. Rendered in thick, gestural strokes of oil on board, the work presents a crocodile-like silhouette that shifts and dissolves upon closer inspection, its contours merging with a human profile. The duality in the figure reflects Payne’s ongoing interest in folklore and the transformative nature of myth, where animals often act as vessels for human emotion, morality, or spiritual presence.