Gabriella Rhodes (b. 1993, Stoke-on-Trent) is a visual artist based on the Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales. Her practice is rooted in walking, fieldwork, and material gathering along the coastline, where geological formations, ecological systems, and seasonal change inform sculptural works made from locally sourced clay, straw, stone dust, and other abundant natural materials.

Originally trained in ceramics, her work has shifted towards clom, a clay-rich earth mixed with straw, through engagement with vernacular earth-building traditions in North-West Wales. Materials are collected following landslips and erosion events, or sourced as by-products of local extractive industries, maintaining close ties to the landscapes from which they originate and celebrating the nuance and variability of local clays.

Rather than treating landscape as imagery, Rhodes works from direct observation: water-worn stones, flowers growing from clay cliffs, and cloud formations encountered during walks. These encounters become starting points for translating geology and ecology into form, where making is shaped by what is found rather than imposed.

Rhodes graduated with a BA in Craft from Manchester School of Art (2018) and an MA in Regenerative Design at Central Saint Martins (2026). Recent exhibitions include London Craft Week (2024, 2025) and Artistiaid Ifainc Cymru at MOMA Machynlleth. Her research has also been presented at the Regenerate! Symposium at Jan van Eyck Academie (2025) and the Making Ecologies Symposium at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2026).