[16][17] Dunn maintained a network of colleagues and continued to learn from them; Australian potters and ceramicists such as Marea Gazzard, Rod Bamford, Janet deBoos, Anita McIntyre, Alan Peascod, and international speakers at the National Ceramics Conferences in the 1980s such as Colin Pearson, Michael Cardew and Paul Soldner.
[12][5] She made hundreds of sketches in her sketchbooks of flowers, seed pods, jugs, vases, symbols from various countries and preliminary designs for her own pottery.
They also show the influence of time spent in Japan (1985-1988), a place where the traditional art of Tea expresses the importance of imperfection.
"[4] Artfile featured a photo of one of her vessels from the Craft Australia slide library with a description of her combination and adaptation of traditional techniques, "Her one-of-a-kind decorative pieces have an Oriental flavour reflecting her interest in the Middle East and time spent in Japan".
[7] Dunn's last solo exhibition, Metamorphica, was at the Link Gallery, Canberra Theatre Centre in 2000 where she showed her later dry-glaze fantasy creatures.