Rosemary Laing b. 1959

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Laing is most well known for her fantastical landscape images of bush floors and rocky outcrops laid with vintage Feltex carpet. Amazingly these scenes are created, not digitally, but by accurately cutting, fitting and laying the carpet on site.
exhibited at
Constructed Realities
Place
Grand Arts Foundation, Kansas City
Description

group show with Tracey Moffatt and three blokes – all presumably Yanks

Type
Exhibition
participated in
Alternative Realities
Date
1995
Description

Alternative realities: Australia Artists Working with Technology
Peter Callas, Moira Corby, Ross Harley, Rosemary Laing, Patricia Piccinini
Curated by Rachel Kent
Ian Potter Gallery, June 15-July 28, 1995
Alternative realities was a touring exhibition organised by the University of Melbourne Museum of Art and the Asialink Centre, supported by the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3877
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Rosemary Laing: effort + rush
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Rosemary Laing: effort + rush
Date
20 August 2015 - 15 October 2015
Place
National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Description

This exhibition presents a selection of work produced by Laing from her major series from the past decade including one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian landscape (2003) and a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes (2009), as well as new work from her most recent series.

Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms that Turn
Date
2008
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.bos2008.com/app/biennale
exhibited at
Rosemary Laing: a survey 1995-2002
Date
2003
Place
Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BCAG exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue; http://www.rosemarylaing.com/files/LaingCVshort.pdf (23/01/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Alexander, George et al … Rosemary Laing: a survey 1995-2002. Sydney: Gitte Weise Gallery; Rosemary Laing, 2003
ISBN 097501630X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Photography
exhibited at
Date
29 August 2001 - 22 September 2001
Place
Gitte Weise Galleries, Paddington, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
2001
Place
Armory, New York, United States of America
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
2001
Place
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
2001
Place
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
participated in
Spin
Date
27 May 2000 - 25 June 2000
Description

Video work by Rosemary Laing: 
'Spin’ video loop, part of the exhibition Gradience
Australian Centre for Photography (in affiliation with the Biennale of Sydney)

Rosemary Laing

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3720
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Aero-zone
Date
1999
Place
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Date
1 March 1995 - 27 March 1995
Place
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW; Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
Description

touring exhibition

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1995
Place
Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport, Mascot, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Blow-out
Date
1993
Place
Annandale Gallery, Annandale, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta 1993
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
From Paradise work: an installation by Rosemary Laing
Date
1992
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Supported by the Blanche Louisa Buttner Bequest.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
QAG annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Travels in Paradise: Rosemary Laing – from Paradise work. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1992. 6p: b&w ill

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
From paradise work
Date
1991
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Supported by the Blanche Louisa Buttner Bequest

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report 1991

Exhibition Catalogue:
Travels in Paradise: Rosemary Laing – from Paradise work. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1992
6p: b&w ill

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation, Photography
exhibited at
In almost every case...
Date
3 July 1985 - 21 July 1985
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Description

Installed works

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Contemporary Art and Feminism