He is known for his headdresses (dhari), masks, shark totems and kinetic sculptures, which connect to his island traditions and culture.
[3] Thaiday attended school on Thursday Island until he was fifteen, when he and his family settled in Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia.
[2] Thaiday leads and participates in many important community events in the Islands, such as The Coming of the Light (when Christianity arrived on Erub in the form of the London Missionary Society in 1871[4]), holding the position of Chairman for five years.
In July 2009 he presented a Beizam mask to the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, and in the same year gave a talk at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia in the US.
In late 2016, Thaiday was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunshine Coast, as the "most distinctive artist of the Eastern Torres Strait".
In 2016 he collaborated on with Jason Christopher on a number of daris, for the Taba Naba exhibition at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.