Photo by Hannah Pye
While her sculptures celebrate Indian culture, they also serve as a means of exploring her relationship with her upbringing. Through her work, she seeks to create an empowered space that embraces all aspects of her identity, bridging seemingly conflicting perspectives. She challenges rigid notions of ethnic identity through an open-minded exploration of her own experiences. Seeing her practice as inherently spiritual, she strives to foster connections between people, place, and culture.
Saroj works with materials rooted in Indian traditions, such as sari fabric, temple bells, beads, and found objects. Through intuitive processes, she creates organic shapes rich in texture, folds, and beadwork. Many of her pieces are site-specific, responding to their surroundings.
Her sculptures explore themes of ritual, migration, identity, and gender, serving as a means to connect with the visceral aspects of her heritage while reflecting on the joys and challenges of growing up as a woman between cultures.
Born in Preston, England, and now based in Oxfordshire. Saroj graduated from Central St Martins, London, with an MA in Fine Art in 2019. 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.