Browsing Tag: Singh Twins

“We’ve been making work about Duleep Singh since the 90s,” Amrit says. “His story is so tragic. He has become a figurehead for Sikhs, a poignant symbol of what we once had and lost.”

The painting was initially inspired by the artist's anger at the "inadequate and biased media coverage which contradicted the personal, eye witness accounts, that were filtering through from the Sikh community in India at the time and, later, the various Amnesty International and Human Rights Movement reports".

....a man who was one of the Punj Piaray (the beloved and revered group of five) to lead the parade in 1997 and 1998 is likely to be walking along, inconspicuously this time.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the unveiling of Sikhs in Canada, a painting by internationally renowned UK-based contemporary artists The Singh Twins. The painting has been commissioned for the ROM’s permanent collection.

I was initially introduced and drawn to the art of the “Singh Twins” when I saw their piece titled Nineteen Eighty-Four