Sarah Rhodes - Image from The Symphony of Light and Dark

Sarah Rhodes
Image from The Symphony of Light and Dark (2020)
Photographic print
40.64 x 60.96cm
Edition 1/10

Sarah Rhodes (b. 1974) studied fine art and psychology gaining her Arts degree from the University of Sydney. Living and working on lutruwita (Tasmania), the land of the palawa people, she explores ways in which the natural environment can guide an understanding of one’s inner world. In 2020, Sarah won the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania for Paper Plane (2020). In 2011, she won the New York Photo Award (Fine Art) for her image Play, depicting children undertaking survival games in the bush to understand their feelings of grief. Six times a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, in 2014 she exhibited at  Photoville in New York and in 2015 at the Australian Centre for Photography. Her photographs have been published by The New York Times, GEO Germany, Australia Geographic, the British Museum, Smithsonian and the Vatican Museum. She is currently studying a PhD in the School of Creative Arts, at the University of Tasmania and is due to complete in December 2022. She is a founding member of the women-identifying photography collective Lumina.