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)

scrub #4 2003
C Type photograph
75 x 127.5 cm
Edition of 12
scrub #5 2003
C Type photograph
55 x 79.5 cm
burning Ayer #1 2003
C Type photograph
85 x 135.7 cm
burning Ayer #6 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 224 cm
burning Ayer #7 2003
C Type photograph
110 x 224 cm
burning Ayer #12 2003
C Type photograph
80 x 148 cm
remembering Babylon #5, a collaboration with Stephen Birch 2003
C Type photogrpah
100 x 188.5 cm
remembering Babylon #6, a collaboration with Stephen Birch 2003
C Type photograph
50 x 81 cm