Rhonda Fenwick

My work is concerned with the creation of a sublime world that manifests in an ephemeral space between an art object and a spectator's experiencing of it; where art works come into being through the "˜play' of others. How a work of art may come into "˜being' through imagination, and also relates to our connectedness to Nature and
how we interact socially with the world around us.

Through play and imagination we can create spaces, places and worlds. We can re-connect through our feelings and responses to the sacredness of our lives and our relationships with self, others, objects and the spaces we inhabit. My practice is explorative and experimental, working across media, through the mediums of painting, drawing, film, photography, combined media installation, environmental art, text and movement.
 In relational art my interests are concerned with art coming into being through an interaction, people (artists, viewers, participants) the environment where they meet and find themselves and objects they engage with. The artist, being the catalyst, for an event or experience.

My work as an artist in participatory arts is concerned with ideas and concepts in art, socio-political landscapes, science, architecture, ps...

2000 – 2001 MA Fine Art University of Sunderland
1995 – 1998 BA (Hons) Fine Art University of Sunderland
1994 – 1995 City & Guilds Teaching for Adults, D32 & D33 Assessors Awards
1992 – 1994 Fine Art Certificate University of Northumbria

2017 Arts for Peace in Syria: Reflections and Visions, St Peter's Church, Burnham
2014 Blessed are the Peacemakers, St Peter's Church, Burnham & St Mary's Church, Slough
2013 Peace, WW1 Commemorations, St Peter's Church Burnham & St Mary's Church Slough
2011 Travel Documents (Bucks Open Studios Fortnight), Flux Gallery, Burnham Park Hall, Burnham
2008 Heads N' Tales, The Old Photography Studio, High Street, Burnham
2007 Sensitive Skin, The Long Corridor, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
2007 Sensitive Skin, Upper Waiting Hall Houses of Parliament, London
2006 SKIN Shattered Shelters II, The Gallery @ University of Northampton
2005 to 2010 Collection of works in St Bede's Institute, Ushaw College, Durham
2003 Circles (a rain/reign meditation), Greenfield Arts &Community Centre, Newton Aycliffe
2002 - 2004 Collection of Paintings in Café MOODS, Durham
2001 JUST-ICE, Riverside Pavilion, Durham
2001 Local Stories, Kimblesworth & Nettlesworth Ex-Servicemen's Club, Durham
2013 Transformation out of Conflict, IKEDA Hall, Taplow Court, Maidenhead
2013 Art in Mind, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2012 Diamonds are Forever, St Peter's Church, Burnham
2012 The Olympic Angels and Lord Desborough's Sporting Celebrations, ...