A Caitriona Dunnett is an Irish artist, working across Ireland and the UK. Her practice is influenced by the land and its stories. She is intrigued by the traces people leave behind, the paths they weave through time and the legacies attached to them. Experimentation is central to her practice; she continuously investigates new ways to incorporate the land into her process. Her methods are slow, creating connections with time and narrative.

Dunnett works with alternative photographic processes, mostly the cyanotype, a low-toxic photographic technique, which she tones with natural tannins selected for their social, political or historical context. Hill Close Gardens was toned with pomegranate and Mass Paths was toned with a popular 19th century English tea that was once used to dye a Royal Christening gown. Working with camera-less photographic techniques, such as the phytogram and lumen processes, she records the interaction between plants and the environment, placing the plants directly on top of photographic paper.

Other techniques include inserting pinhole cameras in the landscape, recording time, the elements and corrosion through solargraphy. Through anthotypes, a method which employs the photosensitivity of plants to make prints, she has experimented with emulsions including blackberry, fuchsia, gorse petals and nettle growing locally to the site of the work’s making.She has also explored the materiality of her handmade prints through bookmaking and created sculptural forms that unfold into new landscapes.