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Research Biography

Kendrea Rhodes is currently undertaking doctoral research at Flinders University. Kendrea takes a creative approach to the fragmented histories and narratives of the Ballarat Asylum using Mad studies, history, creative-writing, life-writing and creative practice ethnography. Kendrea seeks to show how creative practice research methodologies might generate social change upon complex temporal and cultural perceptions of Madness. 

Research Interests

◘  Mad Studies

◘  History of Mental Illness in Australia

◘  Ballarat Asylum, Lakeside Psychiatric Hospital, Ballarat Mental Hospital

◘  Creative Writing, Poetic Inquiry & Life Writing Narratives

◘  Creative Practice Methodologies as Research

◘  Visual Art

◘  History of Emotions

◘  Generational & Displacement Trauma

◘  Erasure: Places, History, People

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

  • AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
  • Archives
  • HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
  • Mad Studies
  • Madness
  • ND Painting
  • Creative Arts
  • NX Arts in general
  • creative writing
  • creative methodologies practices

Gallery

The Asylum Gene, two beds, two arms reaching between the void ©Kendrea Rhodes 2023 all rights reserved
Faces of Madness - three overlaying faces at different ages. Blue and green. Figures of people marching on shoulder ©Kendrea Rhodes 2023 all rights reserved
woman dancing with dog in abstract painting of blobs of pain on pallete ©Kendrea Rhodes 2023 all rights reserved
Woman laying on side, head propped up by bent arm, abstract blobs of paint on pallete ©Kendrea Rhodes 2023 all rights reserved

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