Rosemary Laing 

13 August  – 27 October 2019

Ten Cubed began collecting Rosemary Laing in 2011 with the acquisition of Aristide, Eudoxia, Prowse from the leak series (2010). The exhibition presents a selected group of works from several series, including to walk on a sea of salt (2004), leak (2010), The Paper (2013), effort and rush (2015), Buddens (2017), and skyground (2019).

Rosemary Laing is a Sydney-based artist. Laing’s photographs are theatrical, performative and conceptual. Each series of work establishes its own set of visual language and references, and is most frequently underpinned by a physical intervention undertaken in situ.

In Buddens, hundreds of unwanted clothes were laid over a riverbed that leads to Wreck Bay in New South Wales, the site of many historical shipwrecks. For leak, an oversized upside-down domestic timber house frame was built into a paddock hill on a sheep farm. About leak, she speaks of ‘the tension between land occupation and spreading urbanisation… and the elastic gravity between the sky, and the ground, and their connected conditions.’

Laing’s photographic projects consider the politics and histories of a situation or place. Her images of landscape are often interrupted with structures which explore our relationship to the land and the boundary between the built and natural environment. About Buddens the artist speaks of ‘how the arrival of people, throughout history, shifts what happens in land, challenging those who have left their elsewhere, and disrupting the continuum of their destination place. Disruption causes reconfiguration. It elaborates both the beforehand and the afterwards.’

Rosemary Laing is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.

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Rosemary Laing 

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Tolarno Galleries