Review: Carol Rhodes, Alison Jacques Gallery
William Davie, The Brooklyn Rail
May 2021
While Glasgow School of Art’s Alexander Moffat was nurturing the careers of figurative painters like Steven Campbell, Ken Currie, and Peter Howson, and the city was battling to forge a reputation as a major arts hub outside of London’s suffocating shadow, another one of his students, Carol Rhodes, stopped painting upon graduation in 1982. She spent the ensuing years focusing on political and social causes and returned to painting in 1990. From then until her death in 2018, she quietly created an idiosyncratic body of work that is now, with new representation by Alison Jacques Gallery, gaining long overdue broader critical acclaim. […]