Carol Rhodes (7 April 1959 - 4 December 2018) was born in Edinburgh, but spent her childhood in Serampore, India. She returned to the UK in her mid teens, and studied painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1977 to 1982.
Her work typically depicts industrial landscapes from an aerial viewpoint, devoid of people. Referencing surveillance technology and Renaissance townscape models, Rhodes makes and remakes industrial environs, rendering them anonymous and familiar at the same time.
She has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and abroad, including “See the World”, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2021) and “Survey”, The MAC, Belfast (2017). Her works are in major collections including Tate, National Galleries of Scotland and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
