Born 1985 in Aotearoa, Tyrone Layne is a painter with Māori and Bajan heritage. His Peoplescapes are observational studies of public life, built from the figures, gestures, and small incidents of a particular place and moment.
"Each work begins as a kind of social field study
and ends as a portrait of a culture rather than of any one person. I am drawn to the collective energy
of shared spaces: a street, a shoreline, a stretch of pavement outside a transit stop, where contemporary life plays out in miniature. The figures form a cast of universal characters - the dog walker, the cyclist, the parent with a stroller, the worker on a break - and together they tell a wider story about who we are now. The work lives in the details most paintings leave out, and the flat, unmarked ground isolates each encounter so the viewer reads the scene one human moment at a time."
Tyrone lives and works in Sydney/Gadigal Country.