Rose Marimon, also known as Rosy Myart, is an Australian visual artist working from her studio at Strathnairn Arts in Canberra. Her ongoing body of work, The Rosy Myart Project, is shaped by what she notices around her, from personal experience and community dynamics to wider social and environmental situations.

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Rose works with white on black. Her limited palette is deliberate, but also contradictory. While the work may appear black and white, the thinking behind it is anything but simple.

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Her work is sometimes described as dark, but Rose does not use darkness for drama. It reflects how she sees the world, where difficult things are often hidden, softened or ignored. She is drawn to contradiction, overlooked details and the uneasy things that sit beneath the surface. For Rose, making art is a way of dealing with what she cannot always explain directly. Her studio gives her a place to process that unease and turn it into work.

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Rose builds abstract works through line, repetition, layering and erasure. Her work offers an insight into how she thinks, but never the whole story. Some meaning is deliberately withheld. What remains hidden is just as important as what is shown, allowing viewers to make their own connections.