Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal invites the participants to partake in a Tart Cocos making workshop, sharing the process of making the pastry that is closely tied to her Cocos Island heritage. By engaging in the making of a recipe handed down through generations, participants carry forward the art of making traditional cuisines, keeping the tradition alive. Through this embodied exchange of cultural knowledge, participants can gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the stories and traditions woven into the pastry.

Dates:

13 December 2025

3 January 2026

Time: 3pm - 5pm

Location:

Forest Discovery Centre @ OCBC Arboretum, Level 1 (Workshop Room), Gallop Extension, Singapore Botanic Gardens (Closed every last Monday of the month)

Advisory note: This workshop involves food tasting, which includes wheat, eggs, and dairy products (butter and margarine). Please check with the organisers (graftingtending@gmail.com) if you have any specific food allergies.

General notes:

Photographs may be taken during the workshop as part of our documentation. By attending this programme, you consent to being photographed or filmed.
Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the programme begins.
While younger participants are welcome, children must be accompanied by a supervising adult, who should also register for the programme.
We kindly ask that pets are not brought to the programme venues.
This is a rain-or-shine event.

About the artist:

Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal (b. 2004, Malaysia/Singapore) is an aspiring artist with a passion for painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Inspired by the natural world, ecology, and the environments she has lived in, as well as her travel experiences, she continually seeks new ways to develop her creative voice. Dalilah is currently interested in drawing from her cultural background as a source of artistic exploration, using both personal and collective histories. She thrives in collaborative settings, bringing strong communication skills and a deep curiosity to explore new styles and techniques.

About Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care exhibition:

Like gardening, the act of keeping record involves processes of care: both require attention, patience, and recognition of the conditions that shape growth. Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care frames the care of a garden as an analogy for a thoughtful approach to archiving.

Five artists from the BA (Hons) and Diploma in Fine Arts programmes at LASALLE College of the Arts—Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal, Natalie Savann Oh, Nehal Agarwal, Wang Xi Jie and Zhen Hong Toh—contemplate how their desires and perspectives affect the archives they choose to keep, drawing on a range of media and socially engaged practices to reconsider archiving in expansive ways.

Though every archive may begin with a desire to remember, this exhibition reflects on the process and practice of archiving, and its afterlife. At its heart, Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care is motivated by this human tendency to record—not only to hold on to individual memories, but to open new pathways for care to emerge.

Baking Tart Cocos with Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal