The Singh Twins

Twin sisters Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh are British artists of Sikh heritage. They were born in Richmond, Surrey, and raised in Birkenhead.[2][3] They were the only non-Catholics to attend their Catholic convent school, Holt Hill Convent.[3][4] In the mid 1980s to 1991 they studied art together at University College, Chester, followed by Manchester University.[2]

They combine traditions from both Eastern and Western art to make provocative and sharply political work. |author=Spoken by Grayson Perry in episode 6 of his 2020 Grayson's Art Club programme.[5]}}

The sisters' work is always credited to The Singh Twins, even if the sisters have worked alone on a piece.[3] The Singh Twins work from their studio near Liverpool,[6] which is next to the family home they share with their extended family.[2]

The Singh Twins' work is influenced by Indian miniature paintings, but deals with British contemporary culture, as well as topics such as globalisation and migration.[2][3]

In 2002, their work was the subject of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, making them only the second British-born artists, after Henry Moore, to be accorded such an honour.[2]

In 2009 their work was the subject of an exhibition, "The Singh Twins: Art in Motion" at Leamington Spa Art Gallery.[2] The following year the National Portrait Gallery featured 27 of their works as part of an exhibition, and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens held a retrospective of the previous two decades' worth of their work.[3]

In 2018 they curated the ‘Slaves of Fashion’ exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.[4]

In 2020 they were featured in Grayson's Art Club, hosted by Grayson Perry on Channel 4, and a work of theirs is in the accompanying exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery.[7] Perry said of the twins, whose work he admires: 'They combine traditions from both Eastern and Western art to make provocative and sharply political work.'[8]

• The Singh Twins' website