CAROLYN ESKDALE completed a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2019 and is currently a lecturer in art at RMIT University. Over the past twenty years, Eskdale has presented a range of solo, group and project based exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally, including: Memory Horizon, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2020); Infrastructuralism, Latrobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2018); Gesture Manifest, BLINDSIDE gallery, Melbourne (2016); The Material Turn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (2015); Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2012); On Reason and Emotion: the Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2004); Orifice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2003); Three rooms, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra (2002); Untitled rooms, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2001) and Claustrophobia, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (1998) among many others.
Eskdale has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Barcelona Studio, Australia Council for the Arts, and The Sydney University Power Institute Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris. Carolyn has work in private and public collections within Australia and France, as well as the Monash University and University of Melbourne Collections.