The sinister implications of Baudrillard's observations for contemporary living are deflected – but not ignored – by the beauty and intensity of her photographs, where her own sculpture and antiquarian objects are meticulously reinterpreted and captured through powerful camera lenses to create iconographic images as arresting at three inches as at 30 feet.

Danays is in contact with museums, antique dealers and gem experts from all over the world to find sacred sculpture, precious curiosities and organic forms to work with. These disparate and fragmented objects – often separated by several centuries – are brought together, or combined with symbolically loaded sculpted body-parts (either carved by Danays herself, or by ancient master-carvers and makers) to create her two, interrelated, areas of work: contemporary talismans and autobiographical narratives.

Danays holds a Joint Honors Degree in Fine Art and Art History from Camberwell College of Arts, now part of the University of the Arts, London, and co-founded Cultural Instructions, London in 1995 with Godfrey Worsdale. She later gained a Master of Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, and went on to study Stone Carving for Contemporary Sculptors at City & Guilds. She now lives in LA and works between studios in Venice and the UK.

Her work is in public and private collections in Europe and America.