NIRAJ NAIR is a person from the world.

He is Indian by heritage, spent his childhood in the UAE, Australia and Singapore, and studied in European schools. He’s interested in the way culture makes us turn up to things.

Niraj’s artistic inspirations/curiosities include but are not limited to Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Phil Hoffman, Marin Ireland, Harriet Walter, Mason Alexander Park, Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Riz Ahmed, Mark Rylance, Maryann Plunkett, Vivian Munn, Miriam Silverman, Crystal Finn, Declan Donnellan, Bridgit Panet, Michael Chekhov, Simon Stone, Jake Beckhard, Rebecca Frecknall, Simon McBurney, Robert Wilson, David Lynch, Satyajit Ray, Jafar Panahi, Luca Guadagnino, Mara Nelson Greenberg, Ayad Akhtar, Jennifer Packer, Edward Hopper, Mark Greif, Jennifer Egan, Kenzaburo Oe, Annie Ernaux, Wynton Marsalis, Phoebe Philo, Kiko Kostadinov, Wales Bonner, Jonathan Anderson, King Krule, Vegyn, Jessica Pratt, Clipse, Cocteau Twins, Dev Hynes and Jiddu Krishnamurti.

He hangs on to something Krishnamurti once said: Effort is a contradiction of energy.

He likes this song.