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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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Word Power—Mind The Gap
At first we see peril, then we see the bridge. ‘Mind The Gap’ by kenrea Rhodes. First published in the Empire Times, Vol 47, Issue 1.
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2020 Art Journal
Video and excerpts from my 2020 art journal, including artistic renditions of worldwide media coronavirus representations.
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Remnant Regrowth
South Australia may be COVID-19 free, for now, but we are not pain free. Memories of bushfires still haunt many and efforts of recovery still weigh heavily.
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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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Home: place and space
In December 2019 our home was the most dangerous place to be, by March 2020 it was the safest.
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Iceland in Agnes’s Shoes
Agnes’s Shoes was inspired by the journey of author, Hannah Kent, that culminated in her debut novel ‘Burial Rites’
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How to paint a Harley in 9 steps
Harley Davidson Super Glide (2006 FXD) ©2017 Kendrea Rhodes All Rights Reserved
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You Can’t Choose Your Family
These are the very words that set me on the well-travelled family history trail. Ducking and diving through swathes of digitised records, crawling in and out of rabbit holes lined with red herrings and eventually uncovering a number of families that you probably wouldn’t choose for yourself.
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Validation is good for you
Every now and then someone comes along, someone neutral, and they find something, a quality within your work. This isn’t your family or best friend, this is someone who’s first connection to you is through your art.
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Paint what you see – show don’t tell
As a painter, the phrase ‘paint what you see, not what you think you see’ binds and cuffs my wrists until I ask ‘what do I think I see?’ As a writer the phrase ‘show don’t tell’ gags the creative synapses until binary thought is shattered and realization dawns.
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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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Mentally Difficult
She was reported to be ‘deficient’ and ‘mentally difficult’; a description that could apply to me at various times of my own life. But when did this apparent state of mind develop? Did it already exist or was it a control mechanism? Was it because they wouldn’t return her children?
