How The Singh Twins made Indian miniatures a big deal

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“The last thing we wanted was to become professional artists,” say The Singh Twins as we chat in the verdant surrounds of London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It’s the eve of the world premiere of their exhibition The Singh Twins: Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. “Art was just a hobby,” says Amrit. Her identical twin…