Aditi Patwari (Dea)

Dea has a BA (Hons) in Textiles from Arts University Bournemouth, and an MSc International Business from Hult International Business School. Her artworks have been exhibited in the UAE, US, UK, Germany, Italy, China, and Singapore, and featured in numerous publications including Harper’s Bazaar Art, Architectural Digest ME, The National AE, Khaleej Times and more. She has lived and worked in India, the UK, and the UAE, where she currently resides.

As an artist, her work often manifests itself in the form of textiles that showcase her journeys of duality - of traveling both outside and inside, of deconstructing and reconstructing architectural and cultural languages of different places. Dea spends time studying the lifestyles and philosophies of different parts of the world - which opens her up to new realities, ways of living, thinking and being; resulting in an ongoing process of internal globalization and transformation. Subsequently, her work aims to bring people together by creating connections between contrasting ways of living and seeing the world. She is currently exploring ideas around what it means to be human and what it means to be part of society.