Rosemary Tamas-Cao is a Magandjin/Brisbane-based artist experimenting across sculpture, installation, poetry and performance. Navigating her blended 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 reflect the entangled vulnerabilities of the environment and sustenance. Through this material lens, Tamas-Cao airily sculpts and arranges food, hair and organic byproducts to highlight materiality as energy: frail, alive and coursing with both 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 joint Best in Show. She exhibited her undergraduate work ‘ee with ellow owers’ in Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Intumesce was Tamas-Cao’s first solo show appearing at Grey St Gallery, South Bank, in early 2026, celebrating her emerging work, Squat Tossed (2025). Squat Tossed has continued on to exhibit at Ipswich Community Gallery, The Queensland Multicultural Arts Centre, and ‘the churchie emerging art prize’ held at Metro Arts where Tamas-Cao received the Special Commendation award. Artichoke Collective was founded by Rosemary in 2025, an initiative steeped in food-themed poetry and playfulness to energise emerging artists.