16 June 2025
Carol Rhodes at Alison Jacques: Found her statement on addressing “peripheral land” pretty fascinating, how focusing on traditionally unseen/ignored/“un-aestheticised” places opened a channel to a new way of seeing for her. Gave the feeling that she was the only one in the world inhabiting that space. Maybe she was. But I think I'm most interested in the mechanics of the periphery, the tangibility of how she worked with it (and how I might work with it). Her drawings and ephemera especially offered a glimpse into how the consistent accrual of source material orbiting her preferred vantage point informed a modular vocabulary with a degree of malleability, decontextualizing imagery anchors just a notch further than the paint would do naturally. Focused, intentional, pure painting toward a clear vision.