untitled after room

The series of drawings develops from a tradition that encompases the work of Agnes Martin and Anni Albers, from abstraction to craft and design. The project links to drawing and installation practices discussed by theorists including Pamela Lee (1999), 'Some Kinds of Duration: The Temporality of Drawing as Process Art' and ideas of the index, and the work of Michelle Stuart (1977), 'East/West Wall Memory Relocated, in Krauss (1977), 'Notes on the Index'. Works were exhibited at Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, accompanied by a commissioned text, Greg Creek (2010), 'Untitled After Room", Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. The Sarah Scout Gallery develops opportunities for "outstanding early to mid-career artists with critically engaged conceptual practices" and represents "artists in a range of local and international situations" (see link). Artists include Bianca Hester, Lou Hubbard and Kit Wise. 'Untitled After Room is an outcome from a Ph.D project, 'Constructed Selves: Domestic Sites and Uses of Spatial Appropriation". Reviews include: Dan Rule, 'The Age' 22/03/2010. Eskdale's 'untitled after room' is a room of ink drawing on matte photographic ink-jet prints. The prints record a prior state of the gallery space when it was decorated with a heavy layer of brown, crimson and blue wall paint that had become scuffed, worn, flaked and scored. The work investigates accumulation, time (duration), gesture, intimacy and the trace of hand as artefact. it researhces the relationship between the1960s sculptural and pictorial Mimimalist legacy and a female craft tradition.The project suggests ways in which creative intervention into domestic spaces through installation reveals a psychologiocal history of space and inhabitation.