Donald Rodney

**Donald Gladstone Rodney** (18 Mee 1961 - 4 Maachị 1998) bụ onye omenkà Britain. Ọ bụ onye isi na Britain 's BLK Art Group nke 1980 wee bụrụ onye a ma ama dị ka "otu n'ime ndị na-ese ihe kachasị ọhụrụ na nke ọgbọ ya."  Ọrụ Rodney weputara onyonyo sitere na mgbasa ozi mgbasa ozi, nka na omenala a ma ama iji chọpụta okwu gbasara njirimara agbụrụ na ịkpa ókè agbụrụ .

## Ndụ mmalite na ọrụ
Rodney mụrụ ma zụlite na Birmingham, England . Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ tupu ogo ogo na Bournville School of Art wee gaa n'ihu mechaa nzere nsọpụrụ na Fine Art na Trent Polytechnic na Nottingham, gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1980s.  N'ebe ahụ, ọ zutere Keith Piper, bụkwa onye Birmingham. Piper ga-emetụta ọrụ Rodney n'akụkụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị karịa. Ọrụ nke Rodney na Piper, n'akụkụ Eddie Chambers, Marlene Smith na Claudette Johnson ghọrọ ndị a ghọtara dị ka òtù dị iche iche n'ime nkà Britain, nke a maara dị ka BLK Art Group, nke ihe mgbakwunye ya bụ akụkọ akụkọ ọha na eze na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị.

Na 1987, Rodney dechara Diploma Postgraduate na Multi-Media Fine Art na Mahadum Slade School of Fine Art na Mahadum Mahadum London . 

"Autoicon"  nke Donald Rodney bụ ọrụ ọhụrụ na-ejikọta nka na nkà na ụzụ, nke a tụrụ ime n'etiti 1990s wee wuchaa ya na 1998. Site n'ike mmụọ nsọ Jeremy Bentham nke narị afọ nke iri na itoolu "Auto-Akara ngosi,"  Ọrụ Rodney gbatịrị ụdị mmadụ ya ma na-akatọ echiche ndị bụ isi banyere onwe na ahụ. N'ịbụ nke gbanyere n'akwụkwọ ahụike na-adaba n'ọgụ Rodney na ọrịa sickle cell anaemia, "Autoicon" na-egosipụta AI nke dabeere na Java na netwọk akwara na-emekọrịta ihe na ndị ọrụ site na mkparịta ụka dabeere na ederede, na-ese site na nnukwu ebe nchekwa Rodney na ịntanetị iji mepụta foto na-agbanwe agbanwe.  Mpempe akwụkwọ   Curator Richard Birkett na-enyocha mkpa ọrụ ahụ na-aga n'ihu, na-ejikọta ya na ihe ngosi Rodney's 1997 "9 Night in Eldorado" ma na-ekwurịta njikọ ya na isiokwu nke ịkpa ókè agbụrụ, ikike, na njikọ nke okwu mmadụ na mgbe mmadụ gasịrị.

## Ọnwụ na ihe nketa
Rodney nwere ọrịa sickle cell anaemia, ọrịa na-agwụ ike nke na-akawanye njọ n'oge ndụ ya.  Nke a mere ka ọ nwee mmasị na X-ray ụlọ ọgwụ a tụfuru na isiokwu ahụike ndị ọzọ malitere ịkọwa ọrụ ya. Rodney ji X-ray dị ka ihe atụ iji nọchite anya “ọrịa” nke ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na ọha mmadụ. 

Na 4 Maachị 1998 Rodney nwụrụ site na ọrịa ahụ. 

Mgbe ọ nwụsịrị, e gosipụtara ọrụ Rodney na ihe ngosi nka nke Britain a ma ama *nke 5* . A gụnyekwara ya na ihe ngosi *Nye na Were, Ọrụ Ndị Ngosipụta Ihe ngosi nke Contemporary Art Society* mere na Harris Museum na Jerwood Gallery (2000).

A gbara onye na-ese foto Brenda Agard ajụjụ ọnụ na 1995 ihe nkiri *atọ na-egbu mgbu na oge mgbu*, banyere ndụ na ọrụ nke Rodney dị ka akụkụ nke Black Arts Video Project nke Black Audio Film Collective. 

N'afọ 2003, e nyere akwụkwọ akụkọ Rodney na Tate Archive.

Ihe ngosi *Donald Rodney - Na Retrospect* mere na Iniva, London, 30 October–29 November 2008. 

## Ntụaka
emetụta ọrụ Rodney n'akụkụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị karịa. Ọrụ nke Rodney na Piper, n'akụkụ Eddie Chambers, Marlene Smith na Claudette Johnson ghọrọ ndị a ghọtarn'akwụkwọ ahụike na-adaba n'ọgụ Rodney na ọrịa sickle cell anaemia, "Autoicon" na-egosipụtaa

## Njikọ mpụga

* Donald Rodney, Akwụkwọ ndekọ aha mmadụ, Iniva, 2017.
* Eddie Chambers, "Ndị na-ese ihe nkiri Black British ndị kwesịrị ka amara nke ọma", The IB Tauris Blog, 7 Ọgọst 2014.
* Akụkọ ndụ Donald Rodney na usoro iheomume, Tate Britain, 2004.
* ''Akwụkwọ ndetu iri anọ na asatọ na sketchbook nke Donald Rodney dere ma mepụta, yana ebe nchekwa nke onye na-ese ihe 1982-98'' Tate Archive.
* Portraits of Donald Rodney  
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