Photo by Hannah Pye
Her practice is rooted in making, using material processes as a way of thinking, exploring, and understanding. Working with textiles, beads, acrylic, and found objects, she is drawn to colour, texture, and the physicality of building layered forms slowly over time. Her work emerges through repetition and experimentation, where ideas develop through the act of making.
Her practice is informed by women’s lived experiences, material relationships, nature, and her Indian heritage, particularly textiles, ritual, and Hindu mythology. Since becoming a mother, her awareness of her identity as a South Asian woman in the UK has deepened, shaping an ongoing exploration of belonging, culture, and the futures created for the next generation.
Research takes place through conversation, observation, and residencies, as well as engagement with mythology, symbolism, and historical narratives. Making and research unfold together, each informing the other. Cloth holds particular significance in her work, carrying traces of time, care, and memory.
Saroj’s work centres on women’s stories, their resilience, complexity, and shared connections across generations. Through her practice, she brings together material, memory, and lived experience, creating spaces to reflect on identity, inheritance, and the possibilities for change.
Bio
Saroj graduated from Central Saint Martins, London, with an MA in Fine Art in 2019. In 2025, she was commissioned by Women of the World (WOW) Rotherham to create a site-specific installation for Rotherham Minster, and opened her first institutional solo exhibition, Ocean Mother, at The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library in Preston.
That same year, Saroj participated in NAE Open 2025 and was awarded a solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, which will open in May 2026. In 2026, she completed a two-week residency in Gujarat, India, working collaboratively with local women on a new installation.
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.