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. She is currently pursuing qualification from the AMUSF in Traditional Upholstery, while working and holding classes at her studio in Bethnal Green.
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. Her 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 she uses reference petroglyphs, indigenous tattooing traditions and graphic scripts – setting the words of those that fought for her liberation in stone.
CV
2019-Present
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
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
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