Lis Rhodes

Lis Rhodes (born 1942) is a British artist and feminist filmmaker, known for her density, concentration, and poeticism in her visual works. She has been active in the UK since the early 1970s.

Early life and education Rhodes was brought up in West England, was educated at North East London Polytechnic, and studied Film and Television at the Royal College of Art.

Career Since the early 1970s, Rhodes has created radical and controversial art that challenges her viewers to question perspective of film through her work. She wanted her audience to "reconsider film as a medium of communication and presentation of image, language and sound."

She was cinema curator at the London Film-Makers' Co-op from 1975 to 1976. Her work was also included in the 2007 exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.

In 2012, Rhodes' solo exhibition, Dissonance and Disturbance was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. In 2018, Rhodes' work was included in the Courtisane Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium as part of a focus on women filmmakers that curators, Mónica Savirón and María Palacios Cruz, felt have been overlooked. In October 2022, a group of artists plan to present Liquid Architecture x Light at the ACMI's Gallery 3 inspired by Rhode's 1975 Light Music in conjunction with the exhibit, Light: Works from Tate’s Collection, being held at Melbourne's ACMI.

Partial filmography Dresden Dynamo (1972) Light Music (1975) Light Reading (1978) Hang on a Minute series (1983–85) A Cold Draft (1988) In the Kettle (2010) Whitehall (2012)