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Exhibition of Work by The Singh Twins Announced at the National Portrait Gallery

LONDON.- Work by The Singh Twins will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time in March. The twin sisters are contemporary British artists whose award-winning paintings explore issues of social, political, religious and multicultural debate. The display will offer a contemporary response to the concurrent exhibition, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and The Singh Twins have created a new Gallery trail to draw links between their work, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and the Gallery’s permanent Collection. Using a narrative, decorative, symbolic and witty ‘Past Modern’ (as opposed to Post Modern) style, The Singh Twins have revived the Indian miniature tradition within modern art practice. They say: ‘Our work bridges many worlds, the ancient and the modern; fusing both Western and Eastern aesthetic elements