Carol Rhodes was a precious artist in Scotland’s cultural landscape. She created a distinctive mode of landscape painting across her 25-year career, developing a world of semi-fictional locations that are at once familiar and ambiguous. They are deeply beautiful and hauntingly rich.
Join Andrew Mummery, Curator at Carol Rhodes Estates, who has written extensively on Rhodes’ work for a discussion on Carol Rhodes' work and legacy
Intimately scaled, densely rendered and typically taking an aerial viewpoint, Rhodes’ works depict uninhabited industrial terrains and ‘edgelands’ – factories, canals, motorways, reservoirs – described by the artist as ‘hidden areas’. Rhodes was very interested in the theme of the mined landscape, which recurs throughout her paintings and drawings – one of which is included in Extraction. Her psychologically charged works reflect on our experiences of place and terrain altered by energy infrastructure.