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)

Buddens 2018
Installation view
Buddens 2018
Installation view
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 203 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8
Rose of Australia 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 203 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8
Wildflower 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 203 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8
Drapery and wattle 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 155.6 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8
Still life with teapot and daises 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 156.6 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8
Walter Hood 2017
Archival pigment print
103 x 203.6 cm (framed size)
Edition of 8