Prescription windows are the unseen hem that help us fathom our own brainstorming.
Like looking out of glass coffers at a ‘Pageant for Improbabilities’, where the prize for first place is a sash with the words ‘You may as well be clever’ written on it.
Magic beans are omnipresent if we can germinate our own perspectives and bottle the things we can not explain.
The work I create exhibits the leftover dreams found under one’s bed, visual stories that are dark and vivid.
Whilst inside this genius machine, we sceme things that in the real world wouldn’t materialise.
We may as well be clever, even if it takes our non-logic mind to do so.
Each work presents a childlike nostalgia, imagining affluence and a mischievous etiquette.
This series was born from somewhere quite tilted and illusory, where there is magic in antithesis.
Over the years, living and working in surreal places abroad, I had to try and make that world intelligible. I didn’t always succeed with that, yet I did establish inspiration of plenty.
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Image 1: Rubber Ducky Sento – I want to take a bath that smells like wonder, Katrina Rhodes, 2022, acrylic on cotton, 180 x 175cm (framed)
Image 2: Been there darling – I think about that moment a lot, especially now when punching down, Katrina Rhodes, 2022, acrylic on cotton, 80 x 98cm (framed)
Image 3: Bully – To any witness, it may have looked like I was just mindlessly dribbling. But I was actually developing techniques on how to wake up before I was handed a Red Card, Katrina Rhodes, 2023, acrylic on cotton, 86 x 148cm (framed)
Image 4: Indigo, Indigoing, Indigone – You can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game, Katrina Rhodes, 2022, acrylic on cotton, 103 x 127cm (framed)
Image 5: Victors Racquet – As a child, I was an imaginary playmate, Katrina Rhodes, 2022, acrylic on cotton, 138 x 150cm (framed)
