The death of Rosemary Laing, Australian photo-based artist is announced. She is best known for her flight research 1998-2000 series of photographs. Much of her work was inspired by nature, politics and natural disasters. In the early 2000s, her work incorporated her feelings after the loss of the Republic referendum. She was featured in the National Gallery of Australia’s major exhibition of women artists “Know My Name” in 2022. [“The sensuous but unsettling: remembering the ground-breaking Australian photographer Rosemary Laing” by Donna West Brett, The Conversation online, 29 May 2024]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
