Rosemary Laing
(Australia 1959– )
- Title
- brownwork #7
- Year
- 1997
printed 1998 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- type C photograph
- Edition
- 1/3
- Dimensions
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122.0 x 262.0cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner verso, pencil ".../ 1997 Rosemary Laing .../".
- Credit
- Purchased 1998
- Accession number
- 82.1998
- Copyright
- © Rosemary Laing
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Rosemary Laing is regarded as one of Australia's most distinguished photo-media artists. Born in Brisbane in 1959, Laing has a Diploma of Art Education from Brisbane College of Advanced Education (1976-79), a Diploma of Art from Tasmanian School of Art (1982) and a Post Graduate Diploma from Sydney College of the Arts (1990-1). In 1996 she completed with first class honours a Masters of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
Laing's work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. Solo exhibitions include 'Natural Disasters' in Sydney 1988 and Brisbane 1989; 'from Paradise work' in Canberra 1990, Sydney 1990, Melbourne 1991, Adelaide 1991 and Brisbane 1992; 'greenwork' in Sydney 1995; and 'brownwork' in Melbourne 1997 and Sydney 1998; 'aero-zone' in Japan, Melbourne 1999 and Perth 2000.
Laing has exhibited her work extensively in group exhibitions since the 1980s including those in New York 1986; Korea 1992; Hong Kong 1993, 1995; and Sydney.
Awards include grants from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council in 1985, 1989, 1993 and 1997; Faculty Research Grants from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. Laing's work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
- Bibliography (2)
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Blair French (Author), Brownwork Rosemary Laing, Annandale, 1998.
`Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing: Envisioned' by Anne Marsh, pg. 41-42., Eyeline 1997, 1997, 41,42.
- Exhibition history (2)
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Envisioned: Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing, Monash University Gallery, 12 Oct 1997–12 Dec 1997.
Brownwork Rosemary Laing, Annandale Galleries, 10 Feb 1998–08 Mar 1998.
