Review | Katrina Rhodes at No Vacancy Gallery
No Vacancy gallery was crowded and noisy on opening night of ‘A Handful of Civilised Friends’, three of its walls hung with ornately framed paintings and photographs and the forth glass wall kept out the cold autumn night. Katrina Rhodes’ paintings make up three quarters of the exhibition and a final section features her photographs, vintage and water marked. At first glance the subject of her work appears to be an anthropomorphised history of monarch-like figures, a sort of royal portraiture. The anthropomorphising is in the form of ducks, instead of human heads, and human hands instead of wings. The brush work is fine and all have a subtle mysterious quality to them.
Above: Valentyne
Acrylic on cotton
Image from the26thletter.com.au.
