CV
Education
2019 - 2022 PhD, University of Tasmania (Creative Arts) graduated April 2023
2008 Masters of Publishing, University of Sydney
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Journalism & Photography)
1998–99 Advanced Diploma in Design, TAFE (Photography)
1993–95 Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney (Fine Art & Psychology)
Career
2018 - present Sessional lecturer at UTAS and Swinburne Online
2018-2022 Teacher at Photograme, Studio Space Inclusive Arts, Launceston
2017-2023 Founding member of Lumina Collective
2010 Online Publishing Manager, National Film and Sound Archive, Sydney
2009 – 2010 Online storyteller and outreach officer for the Collections
Australia Network, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, in the Digital,
Social & Emerging Technologies Unit. Worked under Seb Chan.
2008 Freelance photographer. Artist.
2003 – 2008 Senior photographer, News Limited, Sydney
2002– 2003 Photographer, North London newspapers, Trinity Mirror Group
1999-2001 Photographer and journalist, The Examiner newspaper, Tasmania
1997 Assistant Australian art specialist, Goodmans Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers
Awards
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Tidal: City of Devonport Art Prize 2023
WINNER: Women's Art Prize Tasmania 2020
New York Photo Festival Photo Award 2012
FINALIST: National Photographic Portrait Prize, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2014, 2012, 2011, Tidal: City of Devonport Art Prize, 2014, HeadOn Portrait Prize, 2014, 2018, Flanagan Art Prize, 2014, Bay of Fires Art Prize, 2019, 2014, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, 2019, 2012, Foto8 Summershow, 2012, DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, 2014, 2016, Iris Award, 2019.
Exhibitions
Solo shows
2023
A Surrounded Beauty PhD examination show, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS Hunter Street Hobart
2021
A Surrounded Beauty, Photo Access, Canberra, June 10 - July 10
Sawtooth Member's Space, Launceston, October 7 - November 4
2017
Home/On Country, Hurstville Museum & Gallery, 21 January - 13
April
Our story, our dreaming: yellomundi-ngun gunyalungulung-ngun,
Hurstville Museum & Gallery, 5 - 30 April
2015
Play, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Emerging Artists
Space, 29 August - October
Becoming, s.p.a.ce. gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston,
Tasmania, June
Home/On Country, Moree Plains Gallery, 2 March - 17 April
2014
Home/On Country, Gallery Lane Cove, Jan-Feb
2013
Home/On Country, Albury City LibraryMuseum, 30 March - 12 May 2012
Play, INQB8, Mandurah Contemporary Art Space, FotoFreo Fringe 2010
Great Australian Artists (2005 2008), NG Art Gallery, HeadOn
2009
Great Australian Artist, Sydney Writers Festival
2008
Great Australian Artists, Iain Dawson Gallery
Group shows
2023
Dragline Silk, Queenstown, co-curator with Emmalie Kyle, October
2022
Flow, Sawtooth ARI and Huon Valley
Meta, UTAS Academy Gallery
Echoes Lumina, Biennale of Female Photography Italy
Northern Exposure, Poimena Gallery Launceston
2021
A Particular Being, Lumina Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, February - April
We are in the Same Dream, Photo Access, Canberra, June
Portrait of an Interior, Poimena Gallery, Launceston Grammar, July - August
A Particular Being, Lumina Collective, New England Regional Art Museum, August - October
2019
ECHOES, Art Gallery of Ballarat
Intersections, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Inveresk
2018
Women by Women, Lumina, national paste-up across Australia
2017
Lumina Collective show, Sun Studios Sydney, 3 - 20 November
Realising Mother, curated by Zorica Pulija, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, 1
- 18 November, catalogue:
https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/uploads/realising%20mother%20catalogue-FINAL_1.pdf
Lumina Collective launch show, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney, 6 - 18 June
2016
Home/On Country, Moira, May - June
2014,
Auckland Festival of Photography, 28 May – 20 June, 'Sophie' (2013)
2014
Photoville, Brooklyn, New York, 18 Sept-28 Sept, 'Sophie' (2013) 2014
Art & About, Paddington, Sydney, 19 Sept- 12 Oct, 'Sophie' (2013)
2014 Pingyao International Photo Festival, Shanxi, China, 19 Sept-25
Sept, 'Sophie' (2013)
Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania, August 8 - 30, selected images
from the series Play,
Singapore International Photography Festival Open Call, October -
November, selected images from the series Play
Aperture Summer Open New York, June -August, 'Maybe there is a beast
... maybe it's only us' from the series Play
The Fence, Photoville, New York, July - October, selected images from
the series Play 2014 30 x 30, Gallery Pejean, Tasmania, January, Zac
2013
Three Clicks, Gallery Pejean, Tasmania, May, selected images from the
series Play
2012
December show, Gallery Pejean, Tasmania, Windows series
Foto8 Summershow, Fear is nothing more than a dream (2011), from the
series Play
Divergence: photographs from elsewhere, FORM, Midlands Atelier,
Perth, WA, from the series Home / On Country (2011)
2011
New York Photo Festival Invitational, Play (2010) from the series
Play
New York Photo Festival, Play from the series Play 2011 Photographic
Center Peri, Turku, Finland, Play (2010) from the series Play
1998
University of Tasmania Art School group show (the self portrait),
University of Tasmania
1997
University of Tasmania Art School group show, Long Gallery,
Salamanca, Hobart
1995
University group show, Tin Sheds Gallery
1994
University group show, Tin Sheds Gallery
Publications
2019
The Guardian, Art and Design, Identity and place: image-making in Australia – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jan/09/identity-and-place-image-making-in-australia-in-pictures
2017
Realising Mother exhibition explores motherhood, Linda Morris, SMH, 31 October
2014
Sarah Engledow, Curator, National Portrait Gallery and judge National Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 https://nppp.portrait.gov.au/previous-years/2014-2/everybody-look-serious/
CNN Photo Blog, 15 June 2014, Writer Lauren Russell cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/15/growing-up-in-the-tasmanian-bush/ North Shore Times, 24 January 2014, Writer Lauren Murada http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/north-shore/sarah-rhodes-captures-a-piece-of-aboriginal-history-in-her-exhibition-homeon-country-at-gallery-lane-cove/story-fngr8h9d-1226809495335
2013
Bush Telegraph, ABC Radio National, 16 April 2013, Presenter Cameron Wilson http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/2013-04-16/4632560
The Australian, Arts section, 8 April 2013, Arts writer Matthew Westwood http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/possum-cloak-revival-everyone-feels-great/story-fn9d3avm-1226614463545 The BorderMail, Albury 10 April 2013
The Saturday Age, Page 3 of the main section, 6 April 2013, Arts writer Dewi Cooke http://m.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/return-of-possum-skin-cloaks-bridges-past-and-present-lives-20130405-2hcf3.html
The BorderMail, Albury6 April 2013, Writer Aisha Dow
The Standard, Warrnambool, 6 April 2013, Writer Matt Neal http://www.standard.net.au/story/1412620/possum-skins-cloak-a-rich-history-in-the-south-west/?cs=72
SBS World News, 5 April 2013, 6.30pm
NITV News, 5 April 2013, 5.30pm
ABC Radio South-West Victoria (Warrnambool), 4 April 2013, in a news bulletin The BorderMail (Pulse), Albury, lifestyle lift-out, cover and full page inside, 16 March 2013, Writer Sue Wallace
Timemachine Mag, issue 8, Much that is different from things in other lands, Hugh McNichols, On Play
2012
Sunday Times Magazine, 1 July, Foto8 Summershow
2011
Around the Mall, Smithsonian Magazine, Ancient traditions, New Stories: Reviving the aboriginal possum skin cloak, 27 June, Home/On Country (2011)
New York Times, Cloaking the Aboriginal Past, 5 June, Home/On Country (2011), Writer Matthew McCann
Australian Geographic, May / June issue, Home/On Country (2011)
TAKE Magazine, issue 2, March, Home/On Country (2011)
Culture Victoria, Home/On Country (2011)
Timemachine, issue 3, Play
Northside Courier, Behind the lens: Photographer Sarah Rhodes, 12 October 2011, text by Polly Simons, photography by Yie Sandison.
Collections
AlburyCity collection Koorie Heritage Trust Mandurah City Collection (Western Australia) Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Museum Victoria National Library of Australia Private collections, including Charles Blackman Trust and Margaret Hannah Olley Trust
Harlem, New York, 2012