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Details
- Dates
- 1997
printed 1998 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- type C photograph
- Edition
- 1/3
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 262.0 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner verso, pencil ".../ 1997 Rosemary Laing .../".
- Credit
- Purchased 1998
- Standort
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 82.1998
- Copyright
- © Estate of Rosemary Laing
- Artist information
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Rosemary Laing
Works in the collection
- Aktie
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Über uns
Rosemary Laing is one of the most influential artists of her generation. 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.
In 'brownwork' Laing turns her attention to the structures that facilitate air travel. Photographing empty airfreight containers and cargo in transit from above, she examines the industrial and in-between spaces where flight occurs. The processes and machinery that make travel possible are often obscured by the mask of technological efficiency, but here Laing exposes them.
Through travel we transcend the boundaries of time and space; far flung destinations become adjacent neighbours and time folds back on itself. Revealing the labour and resources involved from unfamiliar vantage points, Laing dramatises the mechanics of this transitory state.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Envisioned: Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 12 Oct 1997–12 Dec 1997
Brownwork Rosemary Laing, Annandale Galleries, Annandale, 10 Feb 1998–08 Mar 1998
Rosemary Laing: transportation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Jul 2015–20 Sep 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Blair French., Brownwork Rosemary Laing, 'brownwork', Annandale, 1998.
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Anne Marsh, Eyeline, `Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing: Envisioned', pg. 41-42, Kelvin Grove, 1997, 41,42.
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