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Estate of Rosemary Laing
1959-2024

Estate of Rosemary Laing 1959-2024

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  • In a career spanning over four decades, Australian artist Rosemary Laing created photo-based work that is cinematic in vision and...
    burning Ayer #1, 2003

    In a career spanning over four decades, Australian artist Rosemary Laing created photo-based work that is cinematic in vision and large in scale and scope. Instead of using digital manipulation, Laing photographed real-time performance and physical installations, meticulously staging scenes in culturally and historically resonant locations across Australia. Her work was informed by post-colonial perspectives on the occupation and ownership of land and speculates upon how the past intersects with the present situation. Laing frequently worked in series, creating thematic bodies of work that are large in scale and scope and accumulatively form an ongoing narrative of events that have impacted cultural consciousness.

  • The 'looking', from which images emanate, is an act of the mind, as much as it is a reaction of the senses. It is about the huge space between our eyes and what we see, which is infected by everything we have
    ever come to know and understand.
    —Rosemary Laing

  • Laing has participated in several international biennials including the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2008); Venice Biennale, Italy (2007); Busan Biennale,...
    Flight Research #8, 1999-2000

    Laing has participated in several international biennials including the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2008); Venice Biennale, Italy (2007); Busan Biennale, South Korea (2004); and Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (1995). Solo exhibitions of Laing's work have been held at numerous museums, including Domus Artium 2002, Spain; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Tennessee; Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan; and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia. Her work can also be found in many public collections worldwide, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Harvard Art Museum, Massachusetts; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; National Gallery of Australia; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art; and Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut. Laing was honored at the 35th Higashikawa International Photography Festival in 2019, Hokkaido, receiving the Overseas Photographer Award for photographic achievements.

    Laing was born in 1959 in Brisbane, Australia, and died in 2024.

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  • WORKS
    • Rose of Australia, 2017

      Rose of Australia, 2017

    • The Paper, Wednesday, 2014

      The Paper, Wednesday, 2014

    • Spicer's leap, 2012

      Spicer's leap, 2012

    • Angelos, 2010-12

      Angelos, 2010-12

    • a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #5, 2009

      a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #5, 2009

    • weather #4, 2006

      weather #4, 2006

    • brumby mound #6, 2003

      brumby mound #6, 2003

    • bulletproofglass #3, 2002

      bulletproofglass #3, 2002

    • groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001

      groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001

  • Select Exhibitions

    • Rosemary Laing: A Tribute: Selected Works
      Exhibitions

      Rosemary Laing: A Tribute: Selected Works

      16 July - 16 August 2024 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Rosemary Laing: The Paper
      Exhibitions

      Rosemary Laing: The Paper

      7 February - 15 March 2014 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Rosemary Laing: leak
      Exhibitions

      Rosemary Laing: leak

      6 September - 20 October 2012 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Rosemary Laing: a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes
      Exhibitions

      Rosemary Laing: a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes

      7 May - 20 June 2009 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
  • NEWS & EVENTS

    • (Un)belonging
      Exhibitions

      (Un)belonging

      22 June - 4 August 2023 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Color Effects
      Exhibitions

      Color Effects

      5 January - 18 February 2023 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Rhe: everything flows;
      Exhibitions

      Rhe: everything flows;

      7 January - 13 February 2021 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Summer Exposure
      Exhibitions

      Summer Exposure

      27 June - 2 August 2013 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Interventions in the Landscape
      Exhibitions

      Interventions in the Landscape

      23 June - 5 August 2011 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
  • PRESS

    • The Australian, Rosemary Laing's Buddens photographs force us to think
      Press

      The Australian

      Rosemary Laing's Buddens photographs force us to think November 28, 2017
    • The New York Times, Monuments of a Postindustrial Landscape
      Press

      The New York Times

      Monuments of a Postindustrial Landscape September 19, 2013
    • The New York Times, Rosemary Laing: 'Weather'
      Press

      The New York Times

      Rosemary Laing: 'Weather' March 2, 2007
    • Aperture, The Unquiet Landscapes Of Rosemary Laing
      Press

      Aperture

      The Unquiet Landscapes Of Rosemary Laing July 27, 2004
  • PUBLICATIONS

    • The Unquiet Landscapes of Rosemary Laing, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Vivienne Webb
      Publications

      The Unquiet Landscapes of Rosemary Laing

      Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Vivienne Webb
      Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ISBN: 9781875632985
    • Rosemary Laing, Victoria Lynn, Judy Annear
      Publications

      Rosemary Laing

      Victoria Lynn, Judy Annear
      Published by: TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia
    • Rosemary Laing, Abigail Solomon-Godeau
      Publications

      Rosemary Laing

      Abigail Solomon-Godeau
      Published by Prestel ISBN: 9783791346663
    • Prostrate Your Horses: Weather and Then Some, Michele Helmrich
      Publications

      Prostrate Your Horses: Weather and Then Some

      Michele Helmrich
      Published by The University of Queensland Art Museum ISBN: 9781864999631
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