Payne, Alistair (2008) Painting as an Interdisciplinary Form. VDM Verlag, Dr. Mueller e.K. Germany, Germany. ISBN 978-383645605

Payne, Alistair (2017) A Particular View of the World: The Practice[s] of Contemporary Painting or Painting Backwards. In: Future Now. Aesthetica, UK.

Payne, Alistair (2017) On Painting - The Discipline, Interdisciplinarity, Indisciplinarity - Teaching Painting Now. In: Teaching Painting: How can Painting be taught in Art Schools? Black Dog Publishing, UK, pp. 23-29. ISBN 9781911164104

Payne, Alistair (2015) The virtual, alternate spaces and their affects upon artwork. In: Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies. IGI Global, America, pp. 60-82. ISBN 978146668204

Payne, Alistair J (2013) The Virtual and Interdisciplinarity. In: Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Practices. IGI Global, pp. 105-116. ISBN 9781466629615

Wall, Gina, Rogers, Henry and Payne, Alistair (2018) The resilient city: reciprocity within creative ecologies. In: 15th ELIA Biennial Conference: Resilience and the City, 21-24 November 2018, Willem De Kooning Academy and Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam.

Payne, Alistair (2016) Mixing It Up. In: International Conference on Artistic Research: WRITING, 28-29 April 2016, University of the Arts The Hague & Leiden University.

Payne, Alistair (2015) Who Is Hiding Now? In: The Hidden Curriculum, 9 - 11 September 2015, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland.

Payne, Alistair J and Ayliffe, Maggie (2009) Conversations in Painting: Painting as a Material Practice. In: Conversations in Painting: Painting as a Material Practice, 23rd October 2009, The University of Wolverhampton.

Payne, Alistair (2014) Indisciplinary Behaviour. Rom8 Gallery, Bergen, Norway, 9th -19th January 2014

Altintozoglu, Euripides and Payne, Alistair J (2013) The Ends of Art. Beton7 Gallery, Athens, Greece, July 2013

Payne, Alistair (2010) Conversations in painting: neither/nor. Arena Studios & Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Sinclair, Ross and Payne, Alistair (2015) Turner Prize Thursdays: How Do You Make a Glaswegian Artist? Tramway, Glasgow.