Photo by Hannah Pye
Saroj works with materials that hold and remember, cloth, vessels, bells, thread, forms shaped by hands and shaped for hands. These materials bear the weight of touch, use, and presence, carrying traces of daily life and inherited histories. Objects are treated not as symbols but as companions, active in the work’s becoming.
Running through the practice is an attention to softness as force, to femininity as endurance, insistence, and care. Repetition becomes a way of thinking, a way of listening, a way of staying with what is often unspoken. The work returns again and again, not to resolve, but to deepen. The work often gathers people together. Making happens alongside others, where language softens and attention shifts to rhythm, movement, and shared focus. Stories surface indirectly, through proximity and gesture, folding into the work without being fixed or claimed.
Through her work, Saroj creates spaces that hold multiplicity, where memory, labour, and myth exist side by side. The work remains open, unfinished in meaning, inviting the viewer into a process of looking, sensing, and becoming.
Saroj graduated from Central St Martins, London, with an MA in Fine Art in 2019. In 2026 Saroj completed a two week residency in Gujarat. In 2025 Saroj was commissioned by Women of the World Rotherham to create a spite specific installation in Rotherham Minster. She was also awarded a solo exhibition at New Art Exchange in Nottingham.
In 2024 Saroj opened three solo shows; Journey of the Blue Sun at The Old Fire Station in Oxford, Interwoven at The Art House, Wakefield, and Ocean Mother at Orleans House Gallery, London and she unveiled her first outdoor public installation ‘The Wings Flutter, Grasslands are Alive’ commissioned by RGB Kew for Wakehurst.
In 2022 she was commissioned by Clifford Chance, London, to create ‘Observational Realities’, two sculpture installations for their offices which was part of her 2020 win of the Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize. In 2022, she took part in Tate Lates’ panel discussion ‘She Made Me Do It’, and did a talk at the ‘Ways of Seeing Conference’ at the National Gallery in London, she was also awarded the British Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Fund. In 2019, she took part in Art Night, Hix Art, and Participatory Workshops at Tate Exchange. The same year, she was a finalist in the Hix Award, shortlisted for the Tiffany & Co x Outset Studiomakers Prize and won the Tension Fine Art Gallery Prize.