When We Mean to Build
Murray Eskdale, Pylon from South Road, 2023. Pigment print,
When We Mean to Build
Murray Eskdale
Olga Gallery
32 Moray Place, Dunedin
Opening Friday 29 September, 5PM
In “When We Mean to Build,” Murray Eskdale continues to explore the aesthetic concerns that informed earlier exhibitions such as “Perspective” (2022), which included a series of colour digital prints that focus on, in the words of fellow artist Philip Madill, “an unsentimental depiction of modern life and commonplace objects”––in this case an array of contemporary architectural façades that are strikingly minimalist in their design. In contrast, the 2023 black and white photographic series “When We Mean to Build” offers a set of iconic landscapes or “views” (such as “Pylon, from South Road”) and buildings (“Hospital”) taken over July, August and September 2023. These will be familiar to Dunedin inhabitants, who will have passed the sites depicted many times, perhaps without even taking note of their existence.
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