Rosie Crone is an emerging artist living and working on Waddarung country in the Kulin

nation. She grew up in Belfast and studied in Manchester before migrating to Australia in

1996. After a career in health care she is focussing on developing and enhancing her

painting and drawing skills. She works with various drawing media and paints with acrylic.

She combines figurative and abstract elements in monochrome or colour.

As an artist she loves to tell stories and has always been fascinated with cartoons, zines and anime that can distort or re-invent reality. Her illustration and zine work more directly tells a story but in her

painting the intention is to invite the observer to create their own story or interpretation from

the representations.

This is her first solo exhibition and is called Overworlds/Underworlds. The aim is to contrast

the overworld of colour and light with monochrome chiaroscuro night. The unifying concept is

isolation and alternative interactions as humans. The work will comprise single image acrylic

painting and multiple illustrations. The paintings reference real people observed in life and

the illustrations are a fantasy exploration of the Melbourne underground landscape. The

latter tell the story of one woman’s night journey which takes the form of sequential zine

illustrations.

The exhibition is also be the launch of her first printed zine ‘A night with

Belgrave’.