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)

swanfires, Chris’s shed 2002 - 2004
C Type photograph
110.0 x 235.5 cm
John and Kathy’s auto services 2004
C Type photograph
third day of a five day muster 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 206.6 cm
brumby mound #2 2003
C Type photograph
80 x 148 cm
brumby mound #5 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 222 cm
brumby mound #6 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 225 cm
brumby mound #9 2003
C Type photograph
90 x 185.5 cm
one dozen disasters in the Australian landscape #2 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 205.7 cm