Rosemary Laing: Works from the Collection

This collection of photographic works recently gifted to the museum by the artist’s estate, provides an introduction to the scope and range of Rosemary Laing’s practice. Through constructed visual narratives, Laing’s photographs invite viewers to reconsider the way land, identity, and memory intersect and provide an opportunity to reflect through photography upon the Australian landscape, colonial histories, environmental change, and the politics of place.

Artist biography

Rosemary Laing (1959-2024) was a leading Australian contemporary artist known for her photographic works based on close examinations of land and place, interventions into landscape settings and performed actions. Her work is ambitious in scale and celebrated internationally. In addition to many significant Australian exhibitions including survey presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2005) and TarraWarra Museum of Art (2017) her work has been exhibited regularly internationally and has featured in the Istanbul Biennial (1995), Busan Biennale (2004), Venice Biennale (2007), and Biennale of Sydney (2008) as well as in museum exhibitions across Europe, the USA and Asia.