ABOUT
Daya’s practice draws on South Asian maximalism as a visual and cultural language, where abundance and repetition carry memory and meaning. Through layered compositions, she reflect’s on what is inherited, lost and continuously adapting within the diaspora. In her work, pattern, colour, and adornment function as intentional visual triggers that carry cultural histories and tell stories of lived experience across generations.
Through painting, illustration, textiles, installation, and wearable art, Daya reinterprets traditional crafts, textile motifs, and architectural forms, through a contemporary lens. This extends into interactive, sensory and immersive spaces.
These works can take the form of a handmade sari where stories are activated through tactile interaction, a market cart reimagined as a mobile archive, or a collaged jacket where fabrics, material detail and embroidery merge fashion, protest, and tradition.
For commission and collaborations get in touch.
Photography by Dee Patel
Exhibitions
The Core Theatre Belongings 2025
Wolverhampton School of Art BCN Residency 2025
Saddlers Centre Walsall Makes Art 2024
Herbert Art Gallery Coventry Artspace Studio Holders 2024
01902 Group Show 2024
St Mary's Guildhall Stories That Made Us: Protest and Identity 2024
Birmingham Creates The Open 2024
Wolverhampton Art Gallery More Art Inc 2024
Manchester Museum Top Floor 2024
Museum of Science & Industry Manchester Museum Community Rickshaw 2023
St Mary’s Guildhall Stories That Made Us; What We Wore 2023
Multistory Assembly 2023
The New Art Gallery Walsall West Midlands Open 2022
Wells Maltings I Matter 2022
God’s House Tower Inspiring Women Artists 2022
a Space Arts GHT 2022
Artefact Stirchley 2021
Peterborough Museum ‘I Matter’ 2021
Birmingham Contemporary Art Gallery South Asian Heritage Month 2021
Preston Park Museum Permanent Collection 2021
Preston Park Museum Extraordinary People 2021
Laura I Gallery Art of Adornment Virtual Exhibition 2021
Babylon Gallery 'I Matter' Virtual Exhibition 2021
Ikon Gallery 2021
MostrArt Social Media Exhibition 2020
BBC Dance Festival 2019
Birmingham New Street 2018
Youthquake 2018
Birmingham Reperatory Theatre - Wizard of Oz 2018
International Dance Festival Torro Exhibition 2018
Parkside BCU - Fashion Illustration 2018
Birmingham Reperatory Theatre - Amedee 2017
Clients
Manchester Museum, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Creative Black Country, Walsall Council, Newham Council, Jaivant Patel Company, Coventry Art Space, St Mary's Guildhall, Hardish Virk (Stories That Made Us), Core Theatre, Beatfreeks, Preston Park Grounds and Museum.
Public Collections
Manchester Museum Rickshaw
Preston Park Museum & Grounds Gift of Hope
Press/Features
BBC, Creativity and Culture West Midlands Podcast, DESIblitz, Express and Star, Asian Express, BIBI London, Bol Magazine, Asiana Magazine.
Education
First Class Visual Arts: Illustration