Selected works by Rhonda Whitehead

Sun 11 May 2014 - Fri 6 June 2014

Murray Edwards College

Rhonda Whitehead’s career began in the seventies after leaving the Royal College of Art. Her first solo exhibition was at the Commonwealth Institute Gallery, London in 1975. Since then she has had a further twenty eight solo exhibitions in the U.K.and abroad. She last exhibited in Cambridge at Murray Edwards College in 2010, the Kings Arts Centre in 2009 and at The Clare Hall Gallery in 2008. Her painting Venice Ochre won first prize at the Byard Open Exhibition in Cambridge in 2006.

The selected paintings and works on paper, in mixed media and oil capture and record the surface loss, imperfections and characteristics of erosion and time on man made surfaces. As one critic said “ The action of nature on the built landscape recall the eroded surfaces of buildings in recent work; Whitehead’s painterly response awakens our interest in all manner of physical and climatic exchanges we read on the surfaces of buildings. It is as if the artist were capturing the mind that exists in all matter &ldquo.

The critics Monica Petzal, Marina Vaizey, Sarah Kent, William Packer, Valdemar Januszczak, Guy Brett and Margaret Garlake have all written enthusiastically about her work.

Cost: free