WONKY Good Design Research

The Upcycled Tree Palette We were awarded the Good Design Research grant by DesignSingapore Council (DSG) in 2021 to deepen our research into the potential of upcycling plant prunings into paints and artmaking kits that could advance interest in the craft of working with nature creatively. Our research aims to address the following questions: 1. […]

The Waste Refinery

The Waste Refinery: Ink-surrection We were pleased to be one of the twenty organizations whose work was featured as part of The Waste Refinery exhibition, held at the National Design Centre. It featured twenty organizations and artists dedicated to the transformation of waste into purposeful products. Our display highlighted the “Ink-surrection” series, a collection of […]

School of Tomorrow

School of Tomorrow School of Tomorrow is an exhibition curated by Kinetic Singapore as part of Singapore Design Week 2023. The different classrooms touch on various aspects of sustainability through designing spaces and products, and also how they can be practically applied in the classrooms of the future.

When the Dust Settles

When the Dust Settles: Exhibition and Workshop “When the Dust settles” is an invitation to see artworks beyond the aesthetics of commercialized colours, and into the materiality of found and made pigments. This showcase features a collection of artworks by Shirin Rafie, an artist, paintmaker, and co-founder of Wild Dot. Through exploring the inherent qualities […]

Garden Gifts

“Garden Gifts” by Shirin Rafie. Material from paper to paints are all handmade from plants in studio garden.

OLD school of tomorrow

School of Tomorrow School of Tomorrow is an exhibition curated by Kinetic Singapore as part of Singapore Design Week 2023. The different classrooms touch on various aspects of sustainability through designing spaces and products, and also how they can be practically applied in the classrooms of the future.

Rimbun Dahan Residency

Rimbun Dahan Artist Residency Situated on a private garden planted with giant forest trees and an indigenous kitchen garden, our time at Rimbun Dahan was spent exploring binders, resins, adhesives, and of course natural colour pigments. As our first overseas residency, we were trying out an approach to site-specific material experiments and eventually, the development […]

SG Seeds Exchange

SG Seeds Exchange Artworks A series of paintings with natural inks from edible plants in Singapore.  From top left to bottom right: tamarind seeds, mugwort leaves, snakeweed flowers, magenta leaves, noni roots, mangosteen shells, mango leaves, malabar spinach fruits.

library@orchard

library@orchard Artist-in-Residence We were invited to be library@orchard’s Artist-in-Residence during April 2022. Read more about it here. We hosted a couple of community sessions, opening up the space to members of the public who were curious about working with dye plants found in Singapore. It was a delightful experience for us to connect with individuals […]

OLD The Waste Refinery

The Waste Refinery: Ink-surrection We were pleased to be one of the twenty organizations whose work was featured as part of “The Waste Refinery” exhibition, held at the National Design Centre. It featured twenty organizations and artists dedicated to the transformation of waste into purposeful products. Our display highlighted the “Ink-surrection” series, a collection of […]