Upgrade Yourself Monthly: Making Meaning with Materials
Somerset House
Join us for our next Upgrade Yourself Monthly with Hetain Patel – a featured artist in Holy Pop! Hetain’s work explores identity, belonging, and self-expression through the stories, objects and materials that shape our everyday lives.
Please note this event is for 18–30-year-olds.
What we wear, carry and create can say a lot about who we are.
In this artist talk and workshop, Hetain Patel will share insights into his creative journey and the ideas that have informed his multidisciplinary practice. Drawing on projects from across his career, he'll reflect on how ordinary materials, personal histories and cultural references can become starting points for unexpected forms of artistic expression.
Central to the session is Hetain's exploration of fabric paint as a tool for communication and transformation. Through examples of Hetain’s work, you’ll be invited to explore the relationship between the familiar and the unfamiliar: how materials, techniques and ideas can move between disciplines, and how creative practices can emerge through experimentation, curiosity and play.
You’ll get the opportunity to create by customising an object of your own with fabric paints, inspired by Hetain’s practice with this medium. The workshop will create space for making, conversation and collective reflection, encouraging you to share ideas with others while developing your own creative responses.
Whether you're interested in visual art, fashion, craft, performance or simply finding new ways to express yourself, this session offers an opportunity to think differently about the materials around you and the stories they might help you tell.
As always, free drinks and food provided by Butch Salads will be available throughout the evening.
How to Apply
To get involved in the session, please sign up via the link.
Sign up will close 10am Tue 21 Jul. If you’ve secured a spot, you’ll hear from us by Wed 22 Jul 2026.
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