A Bunnykins figurine. A floral John Brack painting. A contemporary ceramic urn. These might not seem to have commonality but they do share one thing: the colour pink. These surprising objects come together in Thinking Through Pink, a genre-defying exhibition that explores concepts of taste and culture. “I wanted to talk about the idea of pink, not the colour,” says curator and cultural historian Sally Gray. “How do you feel inside colour? What does it mean to you? How does it affect you?”
Pink has a strange history. When synthetic dye was developed in the mid-19th century, colour entered Western fashion in a bold way, and the upper classes recoiled…
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