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The Singh Twins: Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire

The Singh Twins: Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire

The Singh Twins
Ramirez, Janina

Paperback

General ArtIndian & South Asian Art

Publisher Price: $22.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 10, 2026

ISBN10: 1842468456
ISBN13: 9781842468456
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

An exhibition catalogue published to coincide with their exhibition of the same name at Kew Gardens from The Singh Twins that presents a body of largely new, richly detailed works inspired by Kew's collections and the wider story of botany.

The Singh Twins are award-winning, internationally recognized contemporary British artists who draw on the artistic conventions of diverse cultural traditions. Their detailed and vibrant artworks interrogate, among other themes, the wealth which the British Empire amassed from the development of economic botany--hunting, cultivation, and trade in plants including cotton, spices, and dyes--something which botanists from Kew were directly involved in at the time. Their personal and artistic response also reflects on the East India Company and the creation of the Wallich Herbarium, a collection of over 20,000 dried plant specimens and botanical illustrations collected by Nathaniel Wallich between 1817 and 1828, the source of much of Kew's archive of Indian material.

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