Amrit and Rabindra have always produced their fabulous art the only way they know how: together. Peter Stanford meets a singular pair. In The Independent:
Their style is a fusion of Indian tradition and contemporary Western influences which they label “past modern”. Each canvas is produced jointly and combines the bright colours, intricate designs and flattened perspectives of intricate Indian miniature paintings with modern political, social and cultural themes. Among their best-known are From Zero to Hero (above), featuring the Beckhams, and Art Matters, a piece commissioned to mark Liverpool’s tenure last year as European Capital of Culture, but Singh Twins’ works are 
to be found across major national and international collections. In 2002, they were only the second British-born artists, after Henry Moore, to be accorded an exhibition at New Delhi’s National Museum of Modern Art. And the windowsill of their neat, calm, book-lined studio, next to the family home halfway up a sandstone hill between Birkenhead and the Irish Sea, is lined with awards that are sparkling in the spring sunshine.
“One thing that might help,” offers Rabindra, as I once again address her as Amrit, “is that I tend to find myself, almost subconsciously, standing on the right.” Indeed, the reddish shawl each wears is, helpfully, over her right shoulder and Amrit’s left until the photographer mentioned it and Rabindra duly moved hers to match her sister. There is undoubtedly an element of playing with hapless visitors’ confusion over which is which, but the twins regard their shared identity, I quickly come to realise, as more than a game or a marketing device. They have turned it into something to highlight the tensions they have encountered, as citizens and as artists, in being both British and Asian.
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