Dunia Tigris is a queer applied artist who creates ritual and decorative objects from natural materials. She’s pursuing universal truth within the domestic using esoteric knowledge and an intersectional feminist lens. With qualification from the AMUSF in Traditional Upholstery, Dunia loves to restore antique furniture and create seats that provide comfort support and beauty.
Dunia’s choice of techniques and materials are expressions of her belief in honesty and craft, while her decorative motifs often reflect on the structures of society and ethics behind production. Their pottery is hand built from delicate coils of cranky clay, modest and organic with glazes that emphasise unpredictability and imperfection as texture. Dunia loves the alchemy of creating new glazes. The patterns they use reference petroglyphs, indigenous tattooing traditions and graphic scripts – setting the words of those that fought for their liberation in stone.
Since setting up shop in her studio in Bethnal Green, Dunia has always maintained weekly open studio/drop in classes to the community. When Dunia relocated to Hastings in 2022, She set up DGTropicals as a community ceramics studio in its own right- with a small group of studio members and drop in session snow happening twice a week.
In 2022 Dunia, her wife Chrissy, and their friend Rae established Folx Farm in East Sussex. Stewarding the land and begining a new relationship to the earth. See our website for more.
CV
2022-Present
Lead on structures and fruiting bodies
Folx Farm
2019-2022
AMUSF Qualification in Traditional Upholstery,
London Metropolitan University
AMUSF Qualification in Traditional Upholstery,
London Metropolitan University
2016
Furniture Restoration
London Metropolitan University
Sacred Geometry: The Golden Ratio in Nature, Art and the Cosmos
Princes School of the Traditional Arts
2013-2016
Product Designer + Architectural Resource Librarian
Gensler
2015
Visiting Lecturer, marquetry workshop for RIBA II students
University of Westminster
2011-2014
BA(Hons) 3D Design – First Degree Honours
Camaberwell College of the Arts
2011
Fine Furniture Woodwork + Contemporary Upholstery
California College of the Arts
2008-2011
BFA (incomplete)
Cornell University
Exhibitions
2019
LGBT History month, History II: Peace, Reconciliation and Activism, Art Academy Gallery, London
2016
Sleep: The Hotel Design Event, London
*winner of the Sleep Set, part of the concept team + featured as a local maker
2014
deignjunction – London Deign Festival, London
Platform – Clerkenwell Design Week, London
Ventura Academies – Ventura Lambrate, Milan
DUNIATIGRIS Workshop 