Rosmaini Bin Sunarjo
Rosmaini Sunarjo is a 44-year-old self-taught artist based in Sabah, Malaysia. Working full-time across a variety of mediums—including murals, graphic art, comics, painting, sculpture, and diorama—his distinctive style blends modern surrealism with elements of lowbrow art.
Inspired by everyday scenes, folklore, street culture, and underground comics, Rosmaini creates imaginative works that invite viewers into strange yet familiar worlds.
Rosmaini has produced large-scale murals, detailed dioramas, and mixed-media pieces that are humorous, surreal and explore modern identity and issues. His work remains accessible and visually bold, often speaking to those who feel like outsiders.
Titel : Head House Series
Medium : Digital Prin
Year : 2022
Head House is a digital art series by Rosmaini Sunarjo that blends traditional Malaysian architecture with surreal portraiture. These selected works feature portraits of elders from five states—Kelantan, Melaka, Penang, Sarawak, and Sabah—with traditional vernacular houses perched upon their heads. Embedded with each region’s architectural and cultural identity the works explore memory, belonging, and cultural knowledge. This knowledge, once rooted in daily life, now survives primarily in the minds of those who lived it. The elders symbolise a fading generation, carrying traditions and ways of life that risk vanishing in the face of rapid modernisation and urban development. Head House invites reflection on what we inherit, what we forget, and who still holds the stories of our land. It is both a tribute and a quiet warning: to honour our origins, and to resist forgetting them.