Courtesy: Jacqui Mullins
Rosemary Warmington is an Australian painter, born on the River Murray and raised in rural South Australia. Living in Goodwood, a suburb just south of the Adelaide CBD, Rosemary paints from her beautiful garden studio.
Rosemary’s contemporary paintings are drenched in colour, influenced by the natural world . They echo colours and forms seen, remembered or contrived from her travels over time. Extensive travels in both Australia and overseas has provided her with a rich source of inspiration.
Rosemary works through an intuitive process to create her abstract and semi abstract landscapes, imbued with a memory of place. Painting with saturated colours and using mixed media, markings, line work, surface scratchings and motifs she creates expressive works. One such motif reflects her abiding interest in mountains and rocks and their form.
‘I want the colours in my paintings to echo within us, to awaken that feeling of ‘aliveness’ that can become hidden and forgotten in our daily grind.’
Although recognised as an artist today, Rosemary’s formal tertiary qualifications are in social work and business. She was for many years the CEO of a not for profit organisation. In 2012, Rosemary was conferred with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). While in full time employment Rosemary painted on weekends, retiring in 2017 to paint more.
Rosemary describes her art development as a life long journey of evolution in her practice. Her first major solo exhibition ‘Colour Echoes’ (2021) was at South Australia’s pre-eminent BMGART Gallery. This was shortly followed by the group exhibition ‘Are you Home Tonight’ at The Main Gallery (2021). Rosemary has consistently exhibited since with both solo and group exhibitions.
In 2024 Rosemary was the winner of RSASA’s Solar Art Prize Sec6. Rosemary was a finalist in: RSASA’s Inaugural Abstract Art Prize an ‘Essence of Place’ (2023);the West Torrens Art Prize (2023 & 2020), and the GalleryM Contemporary Art Prize (2022).
Rosemary was the Chair of the biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize 2025.
Current Exhibitions & Events
2026 –Urban_Suburban, GalleryM Group Show
Solo
2024- Colours of Nature – a healthy escape, Bessie Davidson Commercial Gallery until Nov 2024
2023- Colours of Nature , Langhorne Creek
2022- Travel Memories – Goodwood Theatre & Studios.
2021– Colour Echoes – BMGART Gallery
2018 – Earth to Sea – Langhorne Creek
2017 – Contemporary Landscapes, Adelaide
2016 – Earth, Air, Water, Adelaide
2011 – The Flinders Revisited, Adelaide
Group/Joint
2026 Victor Harbor Art Show
2025-Artist Market , @ Mezzanine55 Adelaide
2025 Walkerville Art Show
2025- RSASA Winter Exhibition (SALA)
2024- Conversations with Colour, Mezzanine55 Gallery, Adelaide
2024- Solar Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, RSASA
2023- West Torrens Art Prize, Finalist
2023- Coiled Spring, RSASA
2023- Essence of Place – RSASA Abstract Art Prize, Finalist
2022 – GalleryM Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist
2022 – Memento Mori– Adelaide (SALA)
2021 – Are you Home Tonight? – The Main Gallery
2020- A Sustainable Future – West Torrens Art Prize, Finalist
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021- Victor Harbor Art Show
2017- Colours of Life (SALA) Adelaide
2016 – Art & Photographic Exhibition (SALA) Adelaide
2014 – China to the Murray Mouth (SALA ) South Australia
Open Studio
2018 & 2019 – Rosie’s Garage Art Salon (SALA)
Virtual
2021 – Small Paintings Intimate Spaces (SALA) –on artist’s website
2020 – Escape with Colour (SALA), on artist’s website
AWARDS
2012 – Conferred as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
Art Awards/Prizes
2023/2024 Numerous RSASA Merit Awards
2024- Winner Solar Art Prize (Sect6) RSASA
2023- Finalist West Torrens Art Prize
2023 – Finalist Inaugural RSASA Abstract Art Prize- Essence of Place
2022 – Finalist GalleryM Contemporary Art Award
2020 – Finalist West Torrens Art Prize
2010- Winner Nikon BIG picture Award – Contemporary/Abstract category.
EXHIBITING GALLERIES
BMGART Gallery, Adelaide
MEDIA/ARTICLES
2025- SALA Thinking Big Exhibition Catalogue- ‘We Three’ painting chosen as Exhibition promotional image
2025- What Artists Say About the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize 2025.Art in Adelaide,
2024- art video ‘Conversations with Colour Art in Adelaide
2024 – Introducing our new Art Prize Chair , Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize 2025.
2023- Catalogue West Torrens Art Prize
2022- Catalogue GalleryM Contemporary Art Prize
2019- Visceral Emotion – moving between semi-abstract landscapes and total abstraction artist Rosemary Warmington allows intuition to guide her (Art Edit Magazine -Spring 2019)
2016- Coastline Magazine
2014- The Times (Victor Harbor), China to the Murry Mouth Collective Artists Opening
QUALIFICATIONS
Formal tertiary qualifications in social work, business and governance.
Art Training
2021- The Ways to Abstraction – Adelaide Central School of Arts
2021- In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting– Museum of Modern Art , NY (Coursera)
2021- Approaches to Abstraction & Competent Composition,
2018 & 2022- Creative Visionary Program with international artist & mentor Nicholas Wilton, California.
MEMBERSHIP
Accredited Member of Guildhouse
Member RSASA (Royal South Australian Society of Arts)
Member Red House Group SA
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Inquiries directly to Rosemary via her contact page.