Jan Dunning
Precarious Rooms
Jan Dunning is a photographic artist based in Bath and a graduate of Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design. Working mainly with pinhole cameras, Jan also incorporates sculpture and model-making into her work; building and photographing elaborate sets in her studio. For a number of years, Jan has been interested in creating photographs of fantastic or impossible scenes, inspired more by memory and imagination than reality. Influenced by history and mythology, her pinhole images have a dream-like quality, inviting the viewer into a surreal and unsettling relationship with landscape or place.
Her series Precarious Rooms purports to document a series of domestic settings upon which nature has intruded to uncanny effect. The resulting photographs set up a magical narrative for the audience to complete.
Exhibitions include: Scale and Nature, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; Rascal Shadows, commissioned by the Rothschild Foundation for the National Trust at Waddesdon Manor; Constructed Realities, Troika Editions, London and Secrets, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Jan was awarded the Magenta Foundation ‘Flash Forward’ Award for emerging UK photography in 2010.
The submitted works are available for exhibition as limited editions. The dimensions quoted are for framed works. Images can be printed in different dimensions by request.