| Marsha Dunstan | |||||||||||||
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Marsha Dunstan makes photographic images with ambiguous narratives that draw on both constructed fictions and found situations; they are often concerned with the interplay between our internal and external lives. Her current work addresses feminine experience and the performative self-portrait, and explores self-imaging as a strategy in the artist's practice. The series Interior began with the artist’s response to moving from a Victorian terrace at ground-level to a flat eight storeys up in the air. The images follow her negotiations to find a position for herself within this new space. Interior is also a response to the conventions and expectations around the way women inhabit domestic spaces, in this case a 1960s modernist block. The estate's atmosphere of faded idealism formed a backdrop to her MA research into another great -ism of the period, feminism. The blossom tree has been appearing since 2004, but the Pink trees shown here are not really a formal series. Each year the artist makes pink tree images that reflect her current preoccupations, as well as the inherent properties of the trees themselves. These images have, for instance, touched on ideas of renewal, desire, voyeurism, and inside/outside, and they range from landscapes to suburban rites of spring. After a career in newspaper journalism, Marsha gained her BA (Hons) at Wimbledon College of Art in 2007 and her MA (Fine Art) there in 2009. Born in Australia, she holds dual nationality and lives and works in the East End of London. GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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