Internationally acclaimed Wirral artists, The Singh Twins reveal their specially commissioned work for the Museum of London

Jun 23 2010 by Matt Hurst, Birkenhead News

INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed Wirral artists, The Singh Twins are exhibiting a specially commissioned piece at the Museum of London.

Amrit and Rabindra Singh are credited with pioneering a unique style in British contemporary art through their modern development of the ancient Indian miniature tradition.

Their new work is a cityscape representing British Asian achievement in the UK, and focuses on the 19th century Indian Mutiny, or First War of Indian Independence, and its contemporary social, economic and cultural impact.

Titled EnTWINEd, the commission responds to the Museum of London’s 1857 and 1858 paintings by Nelson O’Neill, called Eastward Ho! and Home Again.

The first shows British soldiers embarking a ship and the second details them disembarking after completing their tour of duty.

Amrit and Rabindra adopt the notion of disembarkation to develop an image of the Indian diaspora, and show independence campaigners like Mahatma Gandhi, alongside Indian veterans of the First and Second World Wars, disembarking from a ship to a cityscape backdrop featuring prominent Merseyside and UK buildings.

The Singh Twins said: “As the region we have grown up, worked in and been inspired by as artists, our creative relationship with Merseyside goes back two decades.