Through sculpture and photography, Rhoda's work seeks to define our links with nature, and to explore and communicate our longing to reconcile ourselves with the world around us. Her fragile abstract and figurative works in ceramics, plaster and paper echo these themes, as do her images, using traditional and alternative photographic techniques.
Also, she sometimes combines photography and sculpture by printing on to stone and glass in the darkroom using silver gelatin emulsion. She also particularly enjoys making cyanotype prints as they are exposed outdoors, simply using sunlight, and developed in water.
Rhoda studied at Goldsmiths College, London. During her career, she taught at Middlesex University for many years, has run workshops for artists and worked on a considerable number of community-led projects, residencies and commissions. Her large-scale outdoor photographic installations can be seen in many locations in east London, including the approach to the Excel Exhibition centre and in Stratford, close to where the London 2012 Olympics were held.
She won first prize in the Images of Brixton Competition and was a finalist in the Worldwide Fund for Nature Search for a Sculpture Competition, she also won first prize at the London City Airport Annual Art awards. Recently, one of the photographs that she took when Nelson Mandela visited Brixton in 1996 was chosen to form part of a memorial plaque in Brixton Recreation Centre, a venue that the great man visited at that time.
Rhoda is exhibiting at Butley Mills Studios Gallery, June 5–10, and at The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, August 7–13
