Special Issue: ‘Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen’

This Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Painting compiles contributions from Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen , a day-long symposium that took place at The Glasgow School of Art in April 2024. The purpose of this event was to provoke a range of new writing around Rhodes’s paintings, exploring how existing scholarship on her practice might be both consolidated and expanded upon. The conference also commissioned new responses emerging from study with the Carol Rhodes archive, including creative writing and visual art. The following editorial examines the key debates that emerged around this body of work and reflects on the important issues surfacing from this new scholarship.