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)

Installation view
Installation view
Eudoxia 2010
C Type photograph
100 x 212 cm
Jim 2010
C Type photograph
110 x 238 cm
Prowse 2010
C Type photograph
Large: 124 x 260.59 cm Small: 80 x 154.5 cm
Aristide 2010
Type C photograph
110 x 223 cm
a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #1 2009
C Type photograph
82 x 138 cm
Edition of 8
a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #2 2009
C Type photograph
82 x 138 cm
Edition of 8