Rosemary Laing

One of Australia´s most venturesome photographers, Rosemary Laing (born 1959 in Brisbane) is something of a fabulist who works in the directorial mode; more like a film director than a traditional photographer. Often cinematic in scale, her images can be read as performance as well as photography. One dozen unnatural disasters in the australian desert, completed in central Australia in 2003, works a kind of reverse homeopathy where Modernist couches and armchairs are situated as though the desert itself reclaims them.

Solo Exhibitions (selection since 1999): Museo de Salamanca, Spain 2004 (cat.) Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, 2002 + 2004 Galerie Lelong, New York, 2002 + 2004 A survey 1995-2002, Brisbane City gallery, Brisbane, Australia 2003 (cat.) The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 2000 Australian Centre Contemporary Art, Melburne 1999 National Museum of Osaka, Japon 1999 Group Exhibitions (selection since 1999): Natur and Nation, UK travelling exhibition, start: Hastings Museum of Art Gallery, UK 2004/2005 Face Up, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2003 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2003 Himmelschwer, Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, Austria and Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark, 2003 (cat.) Borusan Art and Cultural Center, Istanbul, 2002 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 2000 Das Lied von der Erde, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 2000

Catalog available: Rosemary Laing A Survey 1995-2002, Brisbane City Gallery 2003 Pressetext

Rosemary Laing - one dozen unnatural disasters in the australian landscape