Rho McGuire (b. 1999, Edinburgh), graduated with a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Art Practice from Gray’s School of Art in 2023. They won the Society of Scottish Artists Graduate Award, which included exhibiting and performing at the SSA 125th Annual Exhibition. For this they won the FromNow Mentoring Award. McGuire was also nominated for New Blood Emerging Artist Prize. Since graduating, McGuire gained a place on Dancebase’s Dancers Emerging Bursary Scheme. They have exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art, responding to caring for Alberta Whittle’s work at the 2022 Venice Biennale. In addition they have exhibited in Ayr, Glasgow and Aberdeen. In a collective, they have had performances, workshops and residencies at Citymoves Dance Studio. McGuire had a residency with Aberdeen Council and performed at DanceLive Festival 2022.
Rho McGuire is an interdisciplinary artist who dances between performance, movement, spoken word and happenings. McGuire’s work is transportable, alternative and ecological. Endurance running, walking, skateboarding and wild swimming are tools that allow them to deep map their local landscapes. Themes of their work include psycho-geography, social anthropology, embodiment and entanglement. They disrupt with participation and co-creation, to collaborate with others and create conversation between people and planet. They rebel by fostering temporary communities and prioritising radical care.
