The DESIGN ACT
Curate. Design. Learn.
Exhibitions
![India in Netherlands](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_d74fb0e5de4446798104af051d314c62.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_d74fb0e5de4446798104af051d314c62.jpg)
India in Netherlands
![Teddy that travels along](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_1a2fdcce092c4b86a681642df5260207.jpg/v1/fill/w_731,h_1024,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_1a2fdcce092c4b86a681642df5260207.jpg)
Teddy that travels along
![Spice, textures and love](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_ccdae81137ed4ead8b32f16666794bed.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_ccdae81137ed4ead8b32f16666794bed.jpg)
Spice, textures and love
![India in Netherlands](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_d74fb0e5de4446798104af051d314c62.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_d74fb0e5de4446798104af051d314c62.jpg)
India in Netherlands
Objects of Attachment
DeMeerse Gallery, Hoofddorp, from 31st May to 7th August, 2015
What objects do people take with themselves, as they move through cities, countries, and continents? Are they objects of desire? Valuable artefacts? Books? Ancestral memories? Or are they just ‘comfort objects’? These objects are no longer just material, they are objects of attachment. Many stories are locked away in these objects; here are some of those stories…
![Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_fc0ec4719fec49d899ea373dfada3be8.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_fc0ec4719fec49d899ea373dfada3be8.jpg)
Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australia
![Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_2b31f55eb9a34c25ba133feda5ea8e2b.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_701,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_2b31f55eb9a34c25ba133feda5ea8e2b.jpg)
Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australia
![Helen: UK, HK](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_e87458fcf6df40d7a6dde6ff80b07745.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_e87458fcf6df40d7a6dde6ff80b07745.jpg)
Helen: UK, HK
![Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_fc0ec4719fec49d899ea373dfada3be8.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_700,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_fc0ec4719fec49d899ea373dfada3be8.jpg)
Patrick & Margriet: Ireland/Australia
Home away from Home
DeMeerse Gallery, Hoofddorp, from 31st May to 7th August, 2015
What is home? Is it a place? Is it the people around you? Or is it the objects that you carry with you to make your home. When does the new country start to ‘feel’ like home? The photo essay helps to provide clues to elements retained from previous cultures, and elements assimilated/adopted/accepted over time. Some of the expats have lived in multiple countries, hence making the concept of ‘home’ more abstract, while others have lived in the Netherlands for so long that this is ‘home’, and their house is the only ‘home’.
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![Copy of IMG_8821.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_652e13908d2a4164a9b9eb7a70c0da4b.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_653,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_652e13908d2a4164a9b9eb7a70c0da4b.jpg)
![walk.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_78bb90d98d914a94ab277f2a5c81de83.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_653,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_78bb90d98d914a94ab277f2a5c81de83.jpg)
![4.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_4241accecbb946439e11905d721815a0.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_1470,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_4241accecbb946439e11905d721815a0.jpg)
Al Walk
Manipal University, Dubai, 2010
Curatorial concept and workshop conducted. ‘Al Walk’, is a series of curated walks through Bastakiya, Dubai and on site explorations. The findings were installed together as an exhibition of photographs, site mapping through various senses and sculpture responding to the site.
![Bastakiya1.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_3320f28e8d164a1dae996b17c12cef69.jpg/v1/fill/w_720,h_481,al_c,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_3320f28e8d164a1dae996b17c12cef69.jpg)
![Bastakiya3.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_da1192cb676d47c58692bc26a33895ab.jpg/v1/fill/w_720,h_576,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_da1192cb676d47c58692bc26a33895ab.jpg)
![P3120021.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_be6bc6203cdc4d478da4ce5f543b3897.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_735,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_be6bc6203cdc4d478da4ce5f543b3897.jpg)
![Bastakiya1.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_3320f28e8d164a1dae996b17c12cef69.jpg/v1/fill/w_720,h_481,al_c,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_3320f28e8d164a1dae996b17c12cef69.jpg)
Mena Lab6
Tasmena, Dubai, 2010
Participant of lab6; designed and executed an installation on documentation and site explorations of Al Khor, Dubai. The installation was part of a cultural exhibition at Bastakiya, Dubai. Reinstalled and curated content of the workshop for Bastakiya art fair.
![IMG_7097.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_10c8ce3eea0c498997512167ce5bca70.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_1470,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_10c8ce3eea0c498997512167ce5bca70.jpg)
![DSC01845.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_11dbf0b21dc54adbb4d95e001cc5ea7b.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_735,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_11dbf0b21dc54adbb4d95e001cc5ea7b.jpg)
![DSC03411.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf851_e2b0982e649549be82c337a320c741aa.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_1307,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/abf851_e2b0982e649549be82c337a320c741aa.jpg)
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Student Exhibitions
Student exhibitions showing Interior design work, student compitions, and ceramic workshops.