Rhonda Dee

Rhonda’s work explores the body as a site of transformation. She works in painting, sculpture, and installation using a variety of materials to expand perceptions of what it means to be human in an uncertain world. Her interest lies in the complexity of self as a layered mystery, formed and deformed by culture and environment. Rhonda’s pieces straddle the stages of a half-life, caught between one identity and another. The resulting works are emotive, gestural and investigate what it means to be visible while becoming other. Drawing from folktales, migrant stories and sci-fi themes, her figurative works speak to the human/animal/plant story as a non-linear transformational journey. Rhonda works with a variety of materials as a way of creating unexpected narratives in sculptural forms and paintings. Her process incorporates spontaneous associations and invites unexpected relationships to occur.

‘Broken Songs’ reveals the artist’s interest in the complexity of ‘self’ as a layered mystery, formed and deformed by culture and environment.