Carmel Cosgrove: Romulus Folio Collective Artist

The Romulus Folio collective has been forming slowly but solidly since the second half of last year, as we work with artists whose practices speak to transformation, land, memory, and layered meaning. We’re pleased to share that multidisciplinary artist Carmel Cosgrove is now part of the Romulus Folio collective, and her thoughtful, place-driven work will be featured in an upcoming project we’ll announce soon.

Working and living on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nations, Carmel brings a deep emotional and physical connection to nature and place into her practice. Her work investigates landscapes altered by time, culture, and environmental disruption, sites that don’t always make sense on the surface, but reveal layers of tension, resilience, and transformation.

Carmel works across video, installation, mixed media, collage, photography, and drawing. Her interest lies in places marked by histories of disturbance: where industry has collapsed or nature has pushed back, where graffiti, tagging, and invasive flora weave into the narrative. Her work offers a quiet and powerful inquiry into identity, environmental change, and the human need to understand and transform space.

A graduate of RMIT Fine Arts (Honours), Carmel has exhibited widely and received numerous awards and recognitions. She was the overall winner of the 2023 Show Your West Side Art Prize (Footscray) and the 2006 Tattersalls Contemporary Art Prize for her video installation Disquiet. Her recent solo exhibition was held at SOL Gallery in Fitzroy (2023), and she’s been a finalist in major national prizes including the Gallipoli Art Prize, Environmental Art and Design Prize, and John Leslie Art Prize. Most recently, she completed the Atelier Artist-in-Residence Program in Ireland in 2024.

We look forward to sharing more of Carmel Cosgrove’s work as part of an upcoming event the collective will feature in. To be announced soon.