Dark Watch is titled after Rhodes’ ST PAUL St exhibition shown in February – March 2016. Co-published with The Physics Room, and designed by Ella Sutherland, the book includes a foreword Christina Barton, and texts by Charlotte Huddleston, Rebecca Boswell, and Ash Kilmartin.

For Dark Watch, Rhodes has worked into the ST PAUL St Gallery space with a combination of materials that are new and reused, natural and human-made. Her actions result in forms she refers to as ‘twists’, ‘folds’, ‘overlays’ and ‘crumples.’ The mass of the work is not weighty; rather there is a sense of both volume and lightness within the space. Central to the installation are the tall, thin, leaning aluminium rods propped with steel rods and stained cedar offcuts. They are the sentinels of the Dark Watch. Most of these Rhodes has previously installed within the intertidal zone (a space that she has worked with since 1972) at Brighton Beach, Christchurch. There they were installed as watchers, a gesture of concern for the effects of climate change, rising sea levels and the pollution of the oceans. Now they have been redeployed as watchers in the gallery space, where they lean gracefully flexed towards the windows and the street outside.

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