Flower Pressing: An extension of Never Quite the Same, Nehal Agarwal offers a glimpse into her practice with Botanical Keepsakes. Participants are invited to explore the art of flower preservation through flower pressing—one of the techniques Agarwal had adopted in Never Quite the Same. Participants will learn traditional and alternative methods of flower pressing, and reflect on the personal/emotional significance of preserving plant material.

Date: 16 January 2026, Friday

Time: 2pm - 4.30pm

Location:

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

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:

Nehal Agarwal (b. 2006, India) is a visual artist currently pursuing a BA (Hons) Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts. She works through playful experimentation with materials and techniques, merging natural and man-made elements. For Nehal, art-making is an ongoing process of testing and rethinking. Each project is an opportunity to challenge her instincts and deepen her connection with the environment. Her work has been exhibited in Crumbs and other student-led showcases.

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 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.

Botanical Keepsakes — Flower Pressing with Nehal Agarwal