Sophie Rhodes is an emerging Australian artist working predominantly in a drawing and printmaking discipline. In her practice, she aims to represent a disruption to the polarisation between science and art, which she portray through use of scientific imagery and aesthetics, including botanical illustration. She is also informed by New Materialism, specifically the representations of ontologies that question plant-human differentiation. Her work revolves around the possibility of transforming biology into new artistic landscapes, including the re- imagining of traditional botanical drawing. She is also concerned with art as climate activism, including responses to eco-anxiety and distress. Sophie is an experienced illustrator, having published her works in scientific literary journals, including Human Arenas, The Activist Practitioner, Qualitative Inquiry and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.
