Past Exhibitions | 2007

Audrey Rhoda
10 empty wine glasses
oils, wax, charcoal on canvas 120 x 150 cm $6,500

Audrey Rhoda
10 empty wine glasses

My work addresses the child in all of us. We are all born artists. Children reveal this in their picture making. We presume to teach the child how to make art, while in practice we can learn so much from the child.

In the tranquil reverie of my art making I find myself returning again and again to my childhood solitudes. And through this dreaming I marvel at how the long forgotten imaginings of these solitudes resurface in my adult-infused imagery.

My imagery references the recurrence of childhood in adulthood - vignettes filled with ‘personas’ big and little, human and animal, scary and friendly, playful and serious in their curious encounters with other strange creatures all born of childhood fantasies.