caitriona dunnett
About caitriona dunnett
Working with the fruit, flowers and vegetables that my grandfather tended, I am making lumen prints. Placing plants directly on to photographic paper, the process records the interaction between the plant, surface and light.
Caitriona Dunnett is an Irish artist based in the UK. She investigates memory and its subjective, personal and forgotten narratives through early photographic techniques. She is intrigued by the traces people leave behind, the paths they weave through time and the legacies attached to them.Recent exhibitions include rivers, signals, miracles, Brighton Photo Fringe, Hill Close Gardens, Warwick, The Lost Garden, Darkroom Birmingham, Flourish Award Exhibition, WYPW, Shoot Festival, Coventry, 22 at Format Festival, Derby and RBSA Photography Prize, Birmingham.Dunnett was awarded an Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland, an Analogue Photography Grant, the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation, a DYCP Award, Arts Council England, an AN Artist Bursary, a Grain Photography Hub Bursary, a Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England and in partnership with Dr Hilary Bishop a Leverhulme Small Research Grant. She was selected for AA2A residency at Coventry University and PhotoIreland's New Irish Works programme.Dunnett has a BA Hons in Photography from Nottingham Trent University and a MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work was published by PhotoIreland, featured in Black & White Photography Magazine and online with the Irish Times, Atlas Obscura and Photomonitor.
Professional roles: Photographer
Location: United Kingdom