Sarith Ratnayake is a curator, PhD researcher and DJ based in London. Her approach to curating can be described as a form of collective care, working primarily with contemporary South Asian Artists and Designers.

 

Through Dhaga, an artist collective and platform she founded, Sarith programmes creative workshops, hosts an ongoing interview series For The Dreamers and curates exhibitions and art fairs. She also leads the digital curation and marketing on Dhaga's online platform. The Sunday List post, she curated for SERVICE95, garnered 1.4 million views on Instagram. She served a dual role as Artist-Producer for Queer Brown Stories (2024), a collective mural commissioned by the Camley Street team of Camden Council–as heard on BBC Radio 6. Prior to Dhaga, she curated Kingston University's MA Sustainable Design graduate show 'Thinkers, Makers, Dreamers' for London Design Festival in 2021. Through Dhaga, she has also curated art markets for Whitechapel Gallery and Horniman Museum and Gardens in collaboration with Daytimers.

 

The collective care ethos she carries into Dhaga has been deeply inspired by the Daytimers movement, which she was an active member of from 2023-2025. Her simultaneous journey as a DJ, explores the curation of sound, particularly house, jersey club and UK garage. Notably, she has DJ'd as part of Daytimers for Phonox, and Adidas Originals. Genre-defying music and queer club culture feed into her practice as she brings together surreal, abstract and queer art to produce sites of belonging.