Tajender Sagoo is an artist, weaver and founder of Pop Samiti. Her practice uses textiles in a multi disciplinary approach. She has a strong interest in using pattern and colour to investigate the relationships between objects and the ideas that they express in the historical and modern experience.

BA Hons 1st in Textile Design, Central Saint Martins School of Art; MA Computing in Design, Middlesex University,

 

Exhibitions, projects, talks and commissions (selected)

2023 Interview with the Progressive Writer’s Association UK.Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/kUprUdELrZo?si=bINm76cbwMMdmjm_

2017 This Land is Ours.Curated a weekend of documentary films by Sanjay Kak with discussion at the BFI London. More at: http://frankbrazil.blogspot.com/2017/08/this-land-is-ours-at-bfi-london-1617.html and http://frankbrazil.blogspot.com/2018/03/jashn-e- azadi-how-we-celebrate-freedom.html

2015 Bhajan Hunjan. ACE funded artist in collaboration with artist Bhajan Hunjan.

2015 The Kenya Land and Freedom Depository at VisionMix, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. https://www.visionmix.info/

2014 The Kenya Land and Freedom Depository, This Is Not A Gateway, Bishopsgate Institute, London, EC2M 4QH.

2014 The Kenya Land and Freedom Depository, Old Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA. https://www.popsamiti.org/kenyalandandfree.html

2013 Launch of Frank Brazil Ltd. South Asian documentary film and events. More at:https://www.frankbrazil.org/ and http://frankbrazil.blogspot.com/2018/09/repost-punjab-21-searching-for.html

2012 The Udham Singh Reading Room, Old Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA. https://www.popsamiti.org/udhamsinghreadi1.html

2012 Commission for the Phoenix cinema HLF project From the archives, I researched and curated The Colonial Eye: British Empire images of the Punjab, India 1912 – 1947. https://www.popsamiti.org/thecolonialeye.html

2012 Programmed a screening of the film Let’s meet at Baba Ratan’s Fair at the BFI, London. https://www.popsamiti.org/filmsbyajaybhard.html

2011 Programmed a screening of two films by Ajay Bhardwaj at the Watermans Art Centre, Brentford. https://www.popsamiti.org/filmsbyajaybhard.html

2009 Pop Samiti Project, London.https://www.popsamiti.org/popsamitipaper.html

2004 Arttextiles3, national touring exhibition. See www. Arttextiles.org Exhibiting at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery.

2005 Edinburgh City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh.

2005 Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Schoolhill, Aberdeen.

2005 Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, Little Elborow Street, Rugby.

2005 ArtSway, Station Road, Sway,Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop.

2005 Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon.

2005 Doll.Commissioned to illustrate front cover of Creative Week Newspaper.

2004 Recipient of the Artist Access to Colleges scheme at London Metropolitan University, Sir John Cass School of Visual Art and Design.

Artist Educator projects as Lead Artist (selected)

2009 Democracy, Kingsdale Secondary School & Houses of Parliament Art and Humanities Cross-Curricular Project, Southwark, London.

2005 Topiary, Historic Royal Palaces & Stitches in Time. Ealing and Tower Hamlets, London.

2004 Day Out in London, Tower Hamlets College & Stitches in Time. Tower Hamlets, London.

2004 Builders of Commercial Road, Stitches in Time. Tower Hamlets, London.

2003 Threads of Gold, Cannon Barnet Primary School & Stitches in Time. Tower Hamlets, London.

2003 Outside Inside, Historic Royal Palaces & Stitches in Time. Westminster, Ealing &Tower Hamlets, London.

2002 Cloth, Freeform Arts Trust, Hackney, London.

2000 Costumes, Discover Children’s Centre, Stratford, London.

1999 Dhabi’s Story, Christ Church of E Primary School, Stepney Green Secondary School & Arts Worldwide.