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rosemary laingweathering

When
21 February – 31 May 2015
Location
Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery
Admission

Free with Museum Pass

Free entry

Curator/s
Sue Cramer

Works from two photographic series by Sydney based artist Rosemary Laing are presented in this exhibition, in association with ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015, a Melbourne-wide Festival of art exhibitions, forums and talks seeking to harness the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change.

Rosemary Laing
weather #3
2006
C Type photograph 110 x 166 cm (image size) edition 6/8 Private collection, Melbourne

Rosemary Laing
weather #3
2006
C Type photograph 110 x 166 cm (image size) edition 6/8 Private collection, Melbourne

Rosemary Laing
The Paper, Tuesday
2013
C Type photograph 90 x 189 cm (image size) edition 1/8 Private collection, Melbourne

Rosemary Laing
The Paper, Tuesday
2013
C Type photograph 90 x 189 cm (image size) edition 1/8 Private collection, Melbourne

Laing’s powerful images elucidate this theme in ways that are layered and sometimes surprising. Linking the two series is the motif of paper. In The Weather 2006, a figure is blown around midst shreds of torn environmental texts, a whirl of bluster, false starts and broken promises. In The Paper (2013), sheets of daily newspaper cover a forest floor like a pale carpet or shroud. The quiet, elegiac mood of the scene paradoxically calls us to action.

Publication

Presented as part of

In the News

Rosemary Laing: weathering
Sara Sweet, Art Almanac, February 26 2015

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