Banita Mistry

​Banita Mistry is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, working across painting, jewellery and sculpture. 

Mistry draws on her background in jewellery to investigate ornament, gesture and iconography as systems of storytelling, organisation and spatial belonging. Her recent work uses henna in expanded, painterly forms, dissolving its decorative traditions into fields of repetition, disruption, and mark-making, to build layered compositions that function like palimpsests. Through this approach, gesture becomes both intentional and accidental, intuitive and archival.

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Mistry’s process is grounded in slowness, presence and recognising the sublime in the mundane. The rhythms of scroll, trace, and repetition are evident across her work, drawing attention to labour, invisible systems, and the quiet intelligence of the hand.

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