Rosemary Tamas-Cao is a Magandjin/Brisbane-based artist experimenting across sculpture, installation, poetry and performance. Navigating her Romanian and Vietnamese descent, Tamas-Cao embraces the fragile material of Vietnamese rice paper to explore themes of nourishment, culture, home and impermanence. Her works are often concerned with entangled vulnerabilities of the environment and sustenance. Through this perspective, Tamas-Cao airily sculpts and arranges food, hair and organic byproducts to highlight materiality as energy: frail, alive and coursing with ecological and cultural agency. 

As part of the QCAD Graduate Show in 2024, Tamas-Cao was awarded the Arts National Brisbane River Young Arts Award as well as Best in Show. She exhibited her undergraduate work in Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Boorloo/Perth.

Tamas-Cao’s first solo show, Intumesce, appeared at the Grey St Gallery in January 2026 at the Queensland College of Art and Design, celebrating her emerging work, Squat Tossed (2025).

Artichoke Collective was founded by Rosemary in 2025, an initiative steeped in food-themed poetry to inspire emerging artists.