Lot 30

Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney 2003
Private collection, Sydney
Christie's, Melbourne, 22 August 2005, lot 144
Private collection, Melbourne

Rosemary Laing - Bulletproofglass, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, 8 May - 1 June 2002

Alexander, G., Forsyth, G., French, B., and Jonson, A., Rosemary Laing: A Survey 1995-2002, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, 2003, pp. 55, 49 (illus. another example)
Salomon-Godeau, A., Rosemary Laing, Piper Press, Sydney, 2012, p. 116 (illus. another example)

"Bulletproofglass #1 is one of the most visually powerful works in a visually powerful series. The suspended bride of Laing's previous series, ‘Flight-Research', hovered in the air often seeming to transcend gravity. These were images of freedom but also poignancy as we were aware of her inevitable fall to earth. The same bride in ‘Bulletproofglass #1' again hovers in the air, but this time she is shot through, wounded in the abdomen with blood splattered down her dress and over her neck. In this eerie photograph it is hard to tell if she is on her way to the heavens or about to plummet towards the ground: the bride seems strangely caught between these opposites of transcendence and oblivion." (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)