
Dee captures the intangible force of potential and makes it visible. Subject to the inexorable creative power of personal metamorphosis, her bodies are caught in a constant state of flux. Dee’s paintings make static a fleeting instant in a perpetual cycle of transformation, as what she calls the “internal geography” of shifting individual identity seeps through the fragile membrane dividing interior from exterior and is mapped across the body.
- Tracey Clement, 2009
Arts Writer, Art Page Editor - Sydney Morning Herald
Artist Statement
We are all migrants continually traversing not only the spatial boundaries of continents and culture, but also the subcutaneous, internal, geographies of body, emotion, and psyche. I am interested in the body as a site of transformation and how the construction/deconstruction of identity shapes us.
- Rhonda Dee
| 2006 | Master of Studio Arts (HD)--Sydney College of the Arts |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)--Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA |
| 1987 | San Antonio College, USA—Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, San Antonio, TX |
| 2010 | Second Nature, Artereal Gallery , Sydney |
| 2009 | The incomplete original, Manly Art Gallery & Museum |
| 2008 | The Only Moving Thing, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art |
| 2007 | Dis-solutions, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 2001 | The map within, Cutcliffe Gallery, Sydney |
| 1998 | Magnifica, MaudeSpace Gallery, Sydney |
| 1997 | Homelands, Enzo Gallery, Sydney |
| 1996 | Emerging from the web (memories, shrines and dreams…)”, Gallery AD 163 |
| 2010 | The Book of Death, Museu Brasilerio da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2006 | Post Graduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts |
| 2005 | Record, Cornish College of the Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 | Dattilo-Rubbo Memorial Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum |
| 2002 | Finalist’s exhibition, Warringah Art Prize, Sydney |
| 2001 | Gallery artists, Cutcliffe Gallery, Sydney |
| 2001 | Finalist’s exhibition, Liverpool Art Prize, Casula Power House |
| 2000 | Elegant grandeur, 7 Oaks Hotel, San Antonio, Southwest Art Month, San Antonio, TX |
| 2006 | Manly Arts Festival Award |
| 1990 | Cornish College of the Arts, Merit Fine Arts Scholarship |
| 2006 | Webless weavers project, Manly Council, Manly Art Gallery & Museum |
| 2002 | Wildworks, Wildworks Productions in the gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum |
| 2002 | Body of Miracles/Body of Disasters, Manly Council, Manly Art Gallery & Museum |
| 2002 | Fourteen-Forty Advertising, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2009 | Tracey Clement, The Body as a Work in Progress. Catalogue essay, July 24 |
| 2009 | Rod Bennett, Body changes, interview, Arts/Entertainment, Manly Daily, July 30 |
| 2008 | Dominique Seriser, ArtsHub Australia, exhibition review, Nov.5 |
| 2008 | Chantal Abitbol, ‘Transcending to far away places’, Australian Jewish News,Interview,:1, Oct.31 |
| 2008 | Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Catalogue, 2008 |
| 2007 | Clara Iaccarino, Dis-solutions review, Dis-solutions exhibition, Sydney Morning Herald, Open Gallery, April 28-29 |
| 2006 | Sydney College of the Arts, Degree Shows. Catalogue essay, Colin Rhode, 2006 |
| 2006 | Sue Hoban, Webless weavers project, exhibition interview, Manly Daily, Time Out, Sept.5 |
| 2005 | Andrew Engelson, David Stoesz, ‘Record’ exhibition, review, Seattle Weekly, Visual Arts: Feb.9-15 |
| 2005 | Adriana Grant, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, ‘Record’, exhibition review, Newsletter (Spring, 2005) : 8 |
| 2002 | Rod Bennett, Manly Daily, Time Out, ‘Wildworks Productions’, interview, April 26 |
| 1998 | Julie Copeland, Arts Talk, ‘Homelands exhibition', interview, ABC Radio National April 12 |
| 2010 | Museu Brazileiro de Escultua, (Brazilian Museum of Culture) Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Private Australian and international collections | |