School of Arts
Tajender Sagoo
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Key information
Key information
- Department
- School of Arts
- Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Textile Design, First Class (Central Saint Martins), MA Computing in Design (Middlesex)
- Subject
- Arts
- Email address
- 725581@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Making Worlds: Migrant Women Homeworkers in the East London Clothing Industry, 1970s–1990s
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Richard Williams
Biography
Tajender is a weaver and artist whose practice uses textile language in relation with print, film, site-specific work, curatorial projects and events. Her work explores the interplay between form, pattern, and narrative in the historical and modern context.
Tajender was born in Kenya, and she grew up in Newham, East London. Her mother worked as a home machinist for the garment industry. This experience informs her research project, Making Worlds: Migrant Women Homeworkers in the East London Clothing Industry, 1970s–1990s.
She has over 25 years of experience as an artist and maker, alongside roles in the arts sector in participatory arts practice and arts administration. She has worked as a textile designer in Bangladesh and India.
Most recently Tajender was Project Coordinator for the AHRC-funded Border Crossings project at SOAS, which examined how public narratives and memories of the 1947 Partition have evolved over time, with a focus on South Asian diaspora communities in the UK and for the AHRC funded India-UK Fellowship research project based at SOAS and UAL.
Research interests
A multidisciplinary approach drawing on labour studies, cultural studies, material culture, and practice based research.
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