Jan Dunning, Arachne (metamorphosis)

17 September – 23 October
Jan Dunning
Natural Histories

Jan Dunning is an artist who has been exploring the potential of pinhole photography for the past four years. Natural Histories is her first exhibition in a public gallery and includes new work commissioned by firstsite, integrated with other recent work. Dunning uses the medium of pinhole photography to present a personal magical and metaphysical take on the world. Long exposures, infinite depth of field, home made cameras; these characteristics introduce elements of intuition, accident and ideas of the invisible and the unknowable, the fantastic and the unique. Natural Histories presents a series of surprising and theatrical images that simultaneously reveal and conceal themselves – the closer we get, the less seems to be explained.

Supported by Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts