Rosemary Laing

VALE ROSEMARY LAING
(1959–2024)

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)

Rosemary Laing, ‘where to from here #2’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing, ‘skyground #1’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing, ‘skyground #2’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing, ‘skyground #3’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing, ‘skyground #5’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing, ‘skyground #4’ 2019, installation view
Rosemary Laing ‘skyground #1’ 2019
Rosemary Laing ‘where to from here #2’ 2019