Dutch Disturbance is Judith van den Boom's 2005 collection. Van den Boom, a 28 y.old Dutch designer from Utrecht cooperated with a factory to create her new work. Conceived after exploring the dusty attics of the Royal Delft Blue factory in Holland, she reconnected with Dutch indentity and hertitage while challanging it's own stereotypes.

Judith questions herself 'What does it mean to be Dutch? Wearing wooden shoes, living in a windmill? No way! These cliches no longer represent out Dutch way of living. We have changed in years but nobody wants to be aware of this'. By use of addapting and re-designing old forgotten molds from the factory, Dutch Disturbance developed into a collection of headless cows, farmgirls with guns and aggresive decorations in hand blue paintings.

The year 2005 started in a exciting rush, full of exhibitions in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and her first solo exhibition in New York with her collection Dutch Disturbance. Also were published several reviews, for example in Icon magazine (UK) and Items (NL). The world of art and design outside Holland was challanging and was her reason to work abroad. Determend she began her journey to China and developed a new views about her idea of design. China has been a big inspiration and the collaborations that are started there with Chinese designers will proceed, when she will start her Master in Design & Ceramics in October 2006 at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Ceramics and design go behond pottery and known objects, a start of a period to show a different point of view.

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