b. 1988, Patiala, Punjab, India
Instagram: @daras.co.in
DARAS (Darshan Singh Grewal) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and spatial storyteller whose practice moves fluidly across visual art, architecture, festival scenography, public installations, sculptural craft, wearable fashion, photographic narratives, soundscapes, immersive play, and film journeys.
At the heart of his practice is a desire to cultivate communities of care. Through immersive learning, participatory environments, and collective experiences, he creates spaces where creativity becomes a pathway to self-awareness, ecological dialogue, healing, and shared imagination. His gatherings bring together art, craft, play, and embodied learning, nurturing meaningful relationships between people, culture, place, and the living Earth.
His evolving vision is to cultivate a living ecology of creativity, one in which conscious presence becomes a bridge between disciplines, generations, and ways of knowing; where cultural practice and ecological stewardship grow together; and where beauty is not simply something to behold, but something to participate in, care for, and carry forward.
A Personal Note:
I think of art as a way of listening, and design as a way of responding.
My practice begins with observing the entwined relationships between people, places, memories, materials, and the living Earth. These observations gradually unfold into immersive environments, spatial interventions, visual imagery, moving stories, poetry, soundscapes, and participatory experiences that invite us all to become part of them.
I am drawn to questions that reveal the living systems between the seen and the unseen. How can curiosity within the design process deepen clarity, keep inquiry sincere yet playful, and turn collaborative celebration into an ecology of conscious practice?
Architecture teaches me to think through the life occupying spaces. Poetry teaches me to listen through the silence. Nature unfolds the ebbs and flows of energy, and my practice exists somewhere at the intersection of these ways of seeing.
Working across community initiatives, events, exhibitions, festivals, and immersive workshops, I am learning to weave experiences that inhabit life with greater presence, wonder, and care.