Ross Alexander Payne, born in Rotherham, UK is an artist based and working in Berlin, Germany since 2006.

His expansive trans-disciplinary approach engages with themes of labour, industry, class-divide, historical materialism, post-industrial society and the hauntological framework of cyclical use and re-use in the societal and cultural process.

Within this framework his work regularly engages with re-purposed industrial materials and objects, often in the context of sound and sonic materiality to create abstracted and oblique views on the role of expansionism and the growth imperative in shaping our lives.

His broad ranging body of work has encompassed sound art, music, visual arts, performance, radio art, installation, digital media, intervention, social practice and education.

Ross has presented work and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Atonal, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organiser his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik Berlin, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and through his own Salon Oblique production collective.