Jul 6, 2024
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Rosemany Laing (1959-2024) Australian
1 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (2017) archival pigment print 103 x 203cm
2 brumby mound #5 (2003) C type photo 109.9 x 225cm
3 Aristide (2010) C type photo 110 x 223cm
4 weather#9 (2006) C Type photograph 129 x 205 cm
5 welcome to Australia (2004) C Type photograph 110 x 224cm
6 flight research #5 (1999) C Type photograph 107 x 240cm
A tolarnogalleries.com
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.
B Victoria Lynn
Laing has spent time researching the history of land and the notion of landscapes at length, and through multiple angles. This has included film, literature, and painting, and the belief systems of Indigenous people. “Laing asks us to think through our own relationship to these bodies of knowledge and our sense of belonging and displacement in these landscapes.
C Rachel Kent
Eschewing digital means, Laing worked in situ to construct her dramatic tableaux, with performers from athletes to stuntwomen, and other collaborators.
D artgallery.nsw.gov.au
In the 'flight research' series Laing photographed a woman wearing a bridal dress suspended in the air. In some works she hovers over an extensive mountainous landscape seeming to defy the laws of gravity. In others such as this image there is a poignant sense of impending disaster as the bride tips forward hands outstretched, seeming to anticipate her eventual contact with the earth. The bright cerulean blue of the sky and the white of the bride’s dress make a dramatic contrast and seem symbolic, the blue suggesting infinite space and traditionally the heavens and the white dress carrying the weight of virginity, innocence and purity.
Laing has created several series around flight and movement including 'brownwork' photographed at Sydney airport in which figures interact with planes and tarmac in unexpected ways. However the 'flight research' and 'Bulletproofglass' series are the most enigmatic with their subject matter of hovering brides. These surreal images echo the role the bride has had in popular culture - in films such as 'Muriels wedding' (1994) - and in high culture in such paintings as Arthur Boyd’s Brides series. The symbolism of the bride remains powerful in modern and contemporary culture and Laing participates with her own images which suggest both freedom and transcendence but also impending tragedy and disaster.
Intrapersonal, 2018
Honours degree textile artwork
The Sweet Forever, and A line of best fit
The Sweet Forever, and A line of best fit
Photography, Photomedia, Mixed Media – Review Tina Fiveash | The Sweet Forever Deirdre Pearce | A line of best fit ANU School of Art & Design Gallery | Until 8 April 2021, Tue-Fri 10.30AM–3.00PM These two exhibitions are each part of Higher Degree by Research programs being undertaken by the artists. Tina Fiveash engages in multiple forms of contemporary photomedia including still and…
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