P8585

Roads, Buildings (Night) 2014

Carol Rhodes (1959 – )

Details

Dimension
55.5 x 57.5 cm
Media
screenprint
Accession number
P8585

Summary

Carol Rhodes (born Edinburgh, 1959) is a painter whose work often depicts oblique landscapes, detached views of non-places presented in aerial perspective. Although the source material for her paintings is often Rhodes’ own drawings and her own and found photographs, the final works cannot be seen as literal descriptions of an actual landscape. Rather, as Tom Lubbock has put it, they can be regarded as ‘fictional views or fictional topographies’.

Rhodes spent her childhood in Bengal and was pleased to have an opportunity to investigate again the region’s topography. She has stated ‘My early experience of India (its colours, density of detail), and then the estrangement from it, has informed my work in incalculable ways, and yet I’ve never wanted to depict India directly. It was very relevant to be working there recently… but the visit still wasn’t about describing the immediate environment, even though there one lives right in the midst of ‘my kind’ of things, like reservoirs and factories – all the features of a country that is at the same time post-industrial and still industrial.’ The images that came out of Rhodes’ trip may not be specifically ‘of’ or ‘about’ India, but they arguably demonstrate most markedly the influences India has exerted across her career.