The work of an artist credited with helping to reshape the photography landscape while campaigning for women’s rights and fair pay is being celebrated through a new exhibition and community archive.
Rhonda Wilson spent more than three decades in Birmingham as an artist, cultural entrepreneur, journalist and activist, according to organisers.
The project, named Seeing Rhonda and hosted in the city, features photographs, letters, posters and publications alongside personal notes and sketches that offer an insight into her life and work.
“She was a photographer but didn’t concentrate on her own practice because she was engaged so much in supporting others and creating different mechanisms for others to develop their careers,” said Dr Annette Naudin, associate professor at Birmingham City University.
“She really was a formidable trailblazer,” she added.