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Carolyn Eskdale, <i>AGNSW Entrance, 6.04</i>, 2004
Carolyn Eskdale, AGNSW Entrance, 6.04, 2004 Installation: Aluminium frame, Perspex, sewn interfacing, wire, flocking, cable, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.

Venue Art Gallery of New South Wales

Born 1963, Bendigo, Australia
Lives and works Melbourne

Carolyn Eskdale has made a set of tactile architectural structures that cut through and across the grand exhibition spaces at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The first is situated in the vestibule/entrance and is in dialogue with the historical resonances of the threshold. The second work downstairs in the body of the exhibition is an exploration of the inside and outside membranes of the 1970s extension of the gallery. These two works are a continuation of a series begun in 1995. Called untitled room, they comprise spaces, sometimes empty or containing objects that are enclosed by screens. In early examples, Eskdale used fabrics stretched over frames to create real spaces that enclosed old family furniture - shrouding or protecting objects behind white veils. The fabric is a translucent membrane that creates tensions between the physical and the visual. Eskdale has said that untitled room is a layered enclosure of associations - replete with strata of usage, consciousness and memory.

More recently, Eskdale's rooms have reworked internal corridors, cavities and other 'in between' spaces. As seen in On Reason and Emotion, the concept and final resolution of the works have become more spatially and architecturally motivated. Carolyn Eskdale's quiet and poetic works ask viewers to consider their position as an integral and active part of the space allowing the individual to address their experience from within it.

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Carolyn Eskdale, AGNSW Entrance, 6.04, 2004
Installation: Aluminium frame, Perspex, sewn interfacing, wire, flocking, cable, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.
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image: Carolyn Eskdale, <i>AGNSW Entrance, 6.04</i>, 2004
Carolyn Eskdale, AGNSW Entrance, 6.04, 2004
Installation: Aluminium frame, Perspex, sewn interfacing, wire, flocking, cable, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.
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image: Carolyn Eskdale, <i>AGNSW Entrance, 6.04</i>, 2004
Carolyn Eskdale, AGNSW Entrance, 6.04, 2004
Installation: Aluminium frame, Perspex, sewn interfacing, wire, flocking, cable, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.
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image: Carolyn Eskdale
Room 8.02, Aluminium frame, size variable. Boomerang House, Eltham.
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image: Carolyn Eskdale
AGNSW Entrance, 6.04 (detail: vestibule and cloakroom), 2004. Aluminium frame, wire, flocking, perspex, cable, sewn interfacing, dimensions variable.
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Room 8.02, Aluminium frame, size variable. Boomerang House, Eltham.
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