ABSTRACT
The Singh Twins, Amrit and Rabindra Singh, are artists and disruptors of convention. Their self-styled “past-modern” work acknowledges and centrally uses an ancient, highly developed tradition of painting to explore and comment on contemporary cultural, political and global events, and so creates something exquisitely new. In the courts of the Mughal empire, miniature paintings were produced collaboratively by a team of artists and the Twins’ artworks are likewise joint creations. Although by definition small, each painting is the painstaking product of many, many hours of work and latterly the Twins have combined the traditional techniques of hand-painting with digital technology. The exhibition featured nine paper works, and eleven fabric artworks displayed on lightboxes, the latter further developing the Twins’ use of digital technology which previously they had only used for composition. Each artwork in the exhibition is the result of long hours of meticulous research and then minutely detailed.
