Rosemary Laing

Rosemary Laing is a photo-based artist. Her projects are most often created in relation to cultural and/or historically resonant locations throughout Australia. With interventions undertaken in situ or through the use of choreographed performance work, she engages with the politics of place and contemporary culture.

The Unquiet Landscapes of Rosemary Laing, a major survey of her work was held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2005 and travelled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark in 2006. TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria presented a major survey of Rosemary Laing’s work in 2018, consisting of 28 large-scale works spanning a 30-year period.

Download the skyground catalogue essay. (2019)

Download the poems for recent times essay (2021)

Read swansongs media release (2024)

Read swansongs catalogue essay by Victoria Lynn (2024)

lambo (mongrel among the gums) 2004
C Type photograph
60 x 100.5 cm
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to walk on a sea of salt 2004
C Type photograph
110 x 226.7 cm
after Heysen 2004
C Type photograph
110 x 252 cm
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welcome to Australia 2004
C Type photograph
110 x 224 cm
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and you can even pay later 2004
C Type photograph
85 x 140 cm
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5.10 am, 15 December 2004
C Type photograph
85 x 169.5 cm
Edition of 7
chalks on Eyer 2004
C Type photograph
opposite Cazneaux 2004
C Type photograph
85 x 164 cm
Edition of 7