[2] Describing the subject matter of his paintings, Dash has said: "The key themes in my work are street festivals and carnival (mas).
My identity as an artist is fixed in the fun and spectacle, and ultimately the social and political resistance of mas.
[4][5][6] Paul Dash was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and migrated to Britain at the age of 11, joining his family in Oxford in 1957.
[3] From 2008 to 2011, he was Head of the MA Artist Teacher and Contemporary Practice and supervised PhD research students at Goldsmiths.
[12] His autobiography Foreday Morning (BlackAmber Books, 2002) "tells of growing up under the influences of two disparate cultures, a multi-faceted drama that examines the tensions of race and colour in the colonial Caribbean and modern Britain.