Bava★Byju represents the Indian English me. As a child in India I was known as Bava and when I came to live in England still as a young child I was given my “official” name of Byju.

As a young adult, I was awarded the Byam Shaw Student Scholarship to study Fine Art and moved to London. This helped start a personal journey of discovery themed around religious cultural commonalities and differences through tinkering with paints, found objects, memories and data.

The painting are often rich in colour offset against darkly themed narratives, not sure why but it suits me. The assemblage using a mix of found and made objects are meant to be playful and the data experiments are still developing, with the aim to make theatrical assemblages.

Exhibitions:

• Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, group show
• The Gate Hammersmith, solo show
• Imagination Building, group show as part of the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva)
• Worthing Open House, group show
• Worthing Town Hall, group show

Commissions:

• Animation for iniva, working with sound artist Trevor Mathison, on Hayward Gallery’s, Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
• Interactive installation for artist Kieth Piper’s touring show
• Aryan Nation , how ‘‘pure English’’ was always already overrun with the language of the colonized, for Mongrel’s  Natural Selection

Awards:

• Byam Shaw Student Scholarship