Education

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

2017 Founding member of Lumina Collective

2008 – present Freelance photographer. Artist.

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.

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

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

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

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