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)

flight research #9 1999-2000
C Type photograph
60 x 60 cm
NASA – Dryden Flight Research Center #1 1998
C Type photograph
118 x 283 cm
NASA – Kennedy Space Center #1 1998-1999
C Type photograph
118 x 254 cm
NASA – Dryden Flight Research Center #2 1998-1999
C Type photograph
118 x 254 cm
airport #1 1997
C Type photograph
122 x 279 cm
airport #2 1997
C Type photograph
118 x 259 cm
airport #3 1997
C Type photograph
122 x 252 cm
brownwork #9 1997
C Type phtotgraph
118 x 254 cm