Exhibition: Marsha Dunstan
Under the Pink Tree
Marsha Dunstan
Feb – Jun 2013
The Royal London Hospital Gallery
Marsha Dunstan is from Australia, but has called Tower Hamlets home since 1994. Her keen and restless eye is repeatedly drawn to the poetry that lies latent within the everyday. This series of photographs, all taken within a few miles of the Royal London Hospital, invites us to recognise the beauty to be found at our doorstep.
The first of these images dates from 2004, when she was living in Bethnal Green near an early-flowering cherry tree. In that cold, grey February, it became a beacon of pink blossom.
Since then, the artist has added to the series annually with new images of pink trees. Each year the new works reflect Dunstan’s changing concerns as an artist, as well as the inherent properties of the trees themselves. These photographs touch on ideas of renewal, longing, indoor and outdoor, as well as the rites of spring.
Marsha Dunstan has exhibited in London, Milton Keynes, Berlin and Chicago. She gained her MA at Wimbledon College of Art in 2009
This exhibition was part Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays programme on Thursday 7th March 2013
