Rosemary Laing (1959– ) is a Sydney-based artist who has been working with the performative potential of photography since the 1980s. She is internationally recognised for her large-scale photographs depicting images of choreographed actions, and physical interventions undertaken through in-situ installation works. She has exhibited extensively since 1978 both in Australia and overseas, and her works are held in collections around the world, including: De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Surveys of Laing’s work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2005) and TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville (2017). Her photographs have been included in major exhibitions such as the main exhibition of the 2007 Venice Biennale, as well as the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. A monograph, written by Abigail Solomon-Godeau was published by Prestel, New York in 2012, and in 2019 Laing received the Overseas Photographer Award at the 35th Higashikawa Awards in Hokkaido, Japan.

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