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![Rosemary Laing
bulletproofglass #3 2002
C type photograph on metallic photographic paper [please clarify process]
120.0 x 193.0 cm
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Lelong, New York, and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne](content/exhibition/1438/1447.jpg "Rosemary Laing
bulletproofglass #3 2002
C type photograph on metallic photographic paper [please clarify process]
120.0 x 193.0 cm
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Lelong, New York, and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne")
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Rosemary Laing Resource Kitthe unquiet landscapes of Rosemary Laing
23 March - 5 June 2005
Major Australian artist Rosemary Laing shares something of Mona Hatoum’s concern with ’place‘. This exhibition of work from 1999 to the present will include the major series’ bulletproofglass, groundspeed and one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian landscape featuring spectacular photographic works with high, almost cinematic, production values. These hauntingly beautiful images create poetic and resonant relationships between the landscape and changing notions of place, creating a powerful commentary on society and culture.
“Perusing Laing’s spectacular compositions is a poetic and sometimes sublime experience, with their visual power staying with you long after viewing” – Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Magazine, March 2005
"Images such as Groundspeed (red piazza) 2001 have an almost hallucinogenic beauty as brightly patterned carpet replaces the forest floor in a subdued, green glade. At a second glance, the carpet also resembles blood flowing through this idyllic landscape. Laing's seamless application of carpet to the forest floor (there is no computer manipulation in these photographs) propels the viewer towards a new reading of nature.
At the end of the exhibition I felt pleasantly saturated by the world I had entered, at her direction.
Laing's particular gift, it seems to me, is her ability to present layered views of the landscape, divorced from any photographic classicism, but heavily laced by her unique brand of symbolism. In conceiving visions more archetypal than stereotypical and informing them with sufficient beauty to carry them to her audience, Laing will hopefully delve even deeper." - Excerpt from review by Robert McFarlane, SMH, April 2005
ADMISSION: FREE
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