[1] A self-taught outsider artist originally inspired by a street theatre background, her works are performative, textual, image based, and acoustic - both digital and analog.
At the age of thirteen, she co-founded Hounslow Arts Cooperative Theatre with Hardial Rai, looking for new connections as Harrow was a hot bed of racist organisations in the 1970s.
Desai was an actor and part of the workshop group, that created Parv Bancil's satirical farce Papa Was a Bus Conductor, and toured with The Dead Jalebis, a spoof rock band, and the Sycophantic Sponge Bunch, a comedy trio.
In 2010, Poulomi set up an arts hub - the Usurp Art Gallery and Studios, the first and only artist-led creative space and studios in the London Borough of Harrow.,[4] The gallery featured internationally renowned artists for the first time in Harrow, such as Mona Hatoum, Chila Burman, Rinpa Eshidan and a host of international and local artists and musicians together, something that had never been done before in Harrow.
[9] Poulomi's work has been featured in Creative Camera, Dazed and Confused, the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, and the New York Times.