Caitriona Dunnett

Lives and Works in Warwick, UK

B. 1975

 

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  • Exhibitions

    Solo

    2024     A Well Trodden Path, Galway City Museum, Galway, Ireland
    2023     Sun, Pomegranates and Tea, Assembly Rooms, Long Buckby, UK
    2022     Hill Close Gardens, Hill Close Gardens, Warwick, UK
    2022     The Lost Garden, Birmingham Darkroom, Birmingham, UK
    2019     Spotlight, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK

    Mass Paths, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Mayo, Ireland

    Group

    2025     A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska, Hundred Heroines, Gloucestershire, UK

                Photography Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK

    2024     25 Years| 25 Objects| 25 Artists, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK

    Shared Grounds, with Collective 22, London Gallery West, London, UK
    Trial & Error, Work Show Grow Exhibition, ASC Courthouse Projects, London, UK

    We Also Fight Windmills, Ania Ready, The Fairway, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
    All of the things none of the time, Curiously Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
    Brigid 1500, Kildare Art Trail, Sult Artists, Ireland

    2023     RBSA Print Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    Open, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK
    To The Sea, Shutter Hub Exhibition, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
    At a Loss, Art Central Gallery, Barry, Wales
    The Ballinglen Arts Foundation & Museum of Art Biennial, Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland
    St Mary’s Allotments Art Trail, Leamington Spa, UK
    TRUG – growing inspiration, Yardstick Gallery, Leamington Spa, UK
    Bainbridge Open, ASC Handbag Factory, London, UK
    Power of Play, Work Show Grow Exhibition, ASC Courthouse Projects, London, UK
    Coventry Open, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK

    Photography Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    Beyond Silver, The London Alternative Photography Collective, The Hive, Birmingham, UK

    Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, UK

    2022     Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
    Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, UK
    West Midlands Open, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
    Flourish Award, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne & The Point Gallery, South Yorkshire, UK

    2021     Photography Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK

    2019     RuaRed Winter Open, Dublin, Ireland
    Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK
    ESPY Photography Award, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales

    Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, UK

    2018     Winter Exhibition, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Mayo, Ireland
    Coventry Open, Herbert Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK

                Bainbridge Open, London, UK

    2017     New Irish Works, Plural 17, Inter Center of Photo & Cinema, Madrid, Spain
    Impressions Biennial, GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway, Ireland
    Mass Paths, New Irish Works, PhotoIreland, the Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2016     Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham, UK

    2015     The London Group Open 2015, The Cello Factory, London, UK
    Open, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK
    Chasing Shadows, Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Isle of Wight, UK

    2014     National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
    Print Biennial, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    The Walking Encyclopedia, Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

    2013     Pushing Print, Margate Gallery, Margate, UK
    Ludlow Open, The Harley Centre, Ludlow, UK
    And the Lads too..., Irish Cultural Centre, London, UK

    2012     Between the Lines, Drawing Project, Dublin, Ireland
    Female Irish Artists, 5Years Gallery, London, UK
    Chasing Shadows, The Profile Gallery, Saltburn by Sea, UK

    2011     Creekside Open, selected by Dexter Dalwood, APT Gallery, London, UK

    Online

    2023     Becoming Monumental – autograph.org.uk
    2022     rivers, signals, miracles, Collective 22, Collective Hubs, Brighton Photo Fringe

    Analog Forever Group Exhibition - “Connecting to the Divine”
    2021     Analog Forever Group Exhibition - “Photography Out of Control”
    2020     Cork Artists Showcase, Uillinn Galleries
    2017     LensCulture’s Winter Exhibition

    Festivals & Fairs

    2025     Duplicate Book Fair, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

    2024     A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham 24, London, UK

                Halftone Print Fair, the Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2023     Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Ireland

    Tsundoku Art Book Fair, PhotoIreland Festival, Ireland

    Exhibition of photobooks, PhotoFrome Festival, UK

    2022     Press + Play, Phoenix Art Space Festival of Print, Brighton, UK

    Halftone Print Fair, the Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
    rivers, signals, miracles, Collective 22, Collective Hubs, Brighton Photo Fringe, UK

    Images Are All We Have, The Printworks, Dublin, PhotoIreland Festival, Ireland

    Exhibition in Bloom, Shoot Festival, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, UK
    22, Unit 7 Royal Hotel Buildings, Victoria Street, Derby, Format Festival, UK

    Work Show Grow, SOLAR Foto Festival, Brazil

    2021     Halftone Print Fair, the Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2018     FOTOLIMO Festival, Salle Walter Benjamin, Portbou, Spain
    2016     New Irish Works, PhotoIreland, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris Photo, France

    2015     Chasing Shadows, Gallery X, Dublin, PhotoIreland, Ireland
    2014     Photo-Paint, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath, UK
    2012     Chasing Shadows, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, PhotoIreland, Ireland

    2010     Chasing Shadows, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, PhotoIreland, Ireland

    2009     Lost in Transit, Vyner Street Gallery, London, London Photomonth, UK

    Education

    2002     MFA in Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
    1999     BA in Photography (1st Class Hons), Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England

    1997     Certificate in Photography, Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland

    Commissions

    2022     Ancient Connections Holy Wells Visual Arts Commission

    Small is Beautiful, Culture @Solihull/Parrabbola

    2021     Artist On My Street, Artspace Coventry

    Live & Local LivingRoom: Artist Commission

    2020     Creative Connections Commission, Creative Black Country

  • Awards

    2024     Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland
    Analogue Photography Grant the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation

    2023     a-n Artist Bursary
    Highly Commended, Photo Frome Open Book Call

    Shortlisted AIS Open, Women Behind the Lens, ‘Place & Space’

    2022     Danny Wilson Memorial Award Professional’s Choice Collective 22

    Funded by Art Friends Warwickshire in partnership curator Alice Swatton

    Coventry Artspace Bursary
    Honourable Mention Julia Margaret Cameron Award

    15 Frames Bursary, Darkroom Birmingham
    Shortlisted Flourish Award
    Small Arts Grants, Derby City Council, Collective 22
    Shortlisted, International Garden Photographer of the Year, ‘The Beauty of Plants’

    2021     Third Prize RBSA Photography Exhibition

    Shortlisted the Light of Day

    Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland
    Analogue Photography Grant the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation

    Runner Up Spectrum Portfolio Award Format

    2020     DYCP Award, Arts Council England
    Honourable Mention Julia Margaret Cameron Award

    2019     a-n Artist Bursary
    2018     British Academy Grant in partnership with Dr Hilary Bishop, Liverpool John Moores

    University

    Shortlisted for the GPF International Photography Competition

    2017     Shortlisted for Remote Photography Festival
    2016     Selected for PhotoIreland’s New Irish Works project

    Shortlisted for the Annex Collection Acquisition Award

    Grain Photography Hub Bursary
    2015     Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England

    Shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize

    Publications

    2024     Dereenacappera, to be published by Photoireland
    2023     The Bright Plain, Ancient Connections, published by PARTHIAN 2021

    2022     A Well Trodden Path, published by PhotoIreland

    2022     Hill Close Gardens, published by PhotoIreland

    2018     Mass Paths, published by PhotoIreland

    Residencies

    2021     Dereenacappera, Beara Peninsula, Ireland
    2016     AA2A at School of Art & Design, Coventry University, Coventry, England

    2008     AA2A at Bedfordshire University, Luton, England

Caitriona Dunnett is an Irish artist based in the UK. Her practice explores memory and the traces people leave behind, the paths they weave through time and the legacies attached to them, specifically looking at heritage, land and nature, manifested through alternative photographic processes. Experimentation is at the heart of Dunnett’s practice, with a particular focus on cyanotype, which she tones using natural tannins.

Dunnett has a BA Hons in Photography from Nottingham Trent University and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Recent exhibitions include the Photography Prize, RBSA Gallery; Beyond Silver, with The London Alternative Photography Collective; Flourish Award; Discerning Eye Exhibition; PhotoIreland and Format Festival, a solo show at Galway City Museum, as well as online with Autograph and LensCulture.

Her work has been supported by the Irish and English Arts Councils, the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation, Grain Projects and a-n the Artist Information Company. Dunnett’s work was shortlisted for the Flourish and AIS Open, Women Behind the Lens award, highly commended at the Photo Frome Festival and awarded a RBSA Photography Prize. She received Honorable Mentions, from the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Her work was published by PhotoIreland and Parthian Books, and featured in Black & White Photography Magazine and online with the Irish Times, Atlas Obscura and Photomonitor.

Mass Paths and The Lost Garden