Through her sculpture and photography, sometimes combining the two media, Rhoda seeks to define our links with nature and to explore and communicate our longing to reconcile ourselves with the world around us.
She uses digital, traditional and alternative photographic techniques to create her images and photographic sculptures, printing on to stone and glass in the darkroom using silver gelatin emulsion. She also enjoys making cyanotype prints – as they are exposed outdoors, simply using sunlight, then developed in water. She makes her sculpture by modelling and casting in plaster, and finishes them with water colour and acrylic paint finishes.
Rhoda studied at Goldsmiths College, London. During her career, she has taught at Middlesex University, 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 has been chosen to form part of a memorial plaque in Brixton Recreation Centre, which the great man visited in 1996.
She exhibits in various galleries in Suffolk, London and Essex.
