"People know little about us, so we become a sort of vacant mirror in which others see only their own preconceptions, their own description of the world reflected back at them. Even the more benign come to us looking for what is strange, and so create only estrangement."

"We are shown as a kind of pink froth that floats to the surface of Pride parades, as ambiguous sirens bent on luring straight men onto gay rocks, as supplicants awaiting surgical re-embodiment in freak circus television, and as serial killers in Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and Dressed to Kill - outsiders beyond the pale of outsider art – lives reduced to a tabloid slogan – Tranny! Tranny! Tranny!"

"But I'd say: 'not so much a woman trapped in a man's body, as a life trapped in the preconceptions of others.'

Sally Payne is 44 and lives in Birmingham. This is her first exhibition.

Sally's work can be viewed at ABplus
from the 27th May - 15th June, 10am - 4pm daily

see more of Sally's work here
www.sallypayne.co.uk