South Asian Heritage Month

Join us in celebrating South Asian culture with free-to-visit art installations by Saroj Patel as well as craft workshops by Bengali creative collective, Oitij-Jo.

Artist Saroj Patel will adorn the garden with handsewn flags, evoking the colours of butterfly and moth wings and the flowers they pollinate. Originally commissioned by RGB Kew, the flags take inspiration from the grasslands across Patel’s ancestral home in Gujarat, India and the colourful shrines carved into the foothills of the Himalayas. The flags are reimagined in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place Roof Garden, hung within the tree canopies, they blend the handmade with the natural, signalling a sacred place where plants, pollinators and people meet. 

In addition to Patel’s artwork, Oitij-Jo, a collective dedicated to providing platforms for creative practitioners to enhance British/Bangla engagement with wider global communities, will be running 2 creative workshops in the roof garden. Inspired by Patel’s practice, the workshops demonstrate how we can incorporate plants and natural dyes in our creative processes. 

Check back in July for details on individual workshops.