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Kendrea’s original prose, blogging and artwork ◙ follows themes of bushfires, art, covid, family history, motorbikes and stories. Includes images and videos.
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voyeuristic driftwood
voyeuristic driftwood is an eco-creative online exhibition that navigates the intersections of mental health, environmental concern, and societal critique through diverse artistic mediums rooted in the artist’s bodymind. It challenges historical portrayals of former mental hospitals while engaging with contemporary understandings of mental healthcare. The exhibition features mixed media works that invoke arboreal witnessing and…
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SALA 2023
The Asylum Gene A multimedia/mixed media exhibition by Kendrea Rhodes What is madness? How can creative practices affect your perception of insanity? Can personal stories of madness change perceptions of mental distress in our culture? The Asylum Gene SALA 2023 exhibition is a study in the influence of art, storytelling, and creative practices on contemporary…
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The Stringybark Short Stories Award
SCAB is the story of a young policeman caught up in the 1923 riots and police strikes in Melbourne, Australia. SCAB received the Highly Commended Award and was published in the 2020 Stringybark short stories anthology, Close To Heaven.
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Motorcycle Magazine
Biker Ally was an American women’s motorcycling magazine that is sadly out of print now. As the Australian Correspondent, Kendrea photographed and interviewed Australian motorcycling legends including a 40-year-old hitchhiking plum-pudding, nudist motorcyclists protesting invisibility and the Top End’s Billy and Trish, taking the long-way-round the world. Click on the images below to read and/or…
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Forgotten Australians
‘Abandoned’ – by Kendrea Rhodes a snippet from a story about a boy lost in institutional care in the 1920s We left him to rest, or so we thought. In the hospital lobby I realized my son was missing, so we retraced our steps back to my grandfather’s room. The picture was memorable: an 89…
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About KendreArt
Kendrea Rhodes is a visual artist, writer, poet and researcher, currently undertaking doctoral research in creative writing at Flinders University, South Australia. Her current SALA exhibition (2026) is Disrupting Sansim. Please visit KendreArt’s Art Gallery for previous SALA exhibitions. Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inbox Publications, Kendrea Rhodes: All work subject to copyright…
