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This latest body of 20 works by Contemporary British artists The Singh Twins, which was featured recently on the BBC&#8217;s Civilisations stories: The Empire, represents a fascinating new direction in the artists&#8217; creative practice &#8211; combining the traditional hand-painted techniques for which they are known with digitally created imagery. Eleven of these, featuring life-sized portraits of historical figures on backgrounds packed with symbolic detail, are digital fabric artworks displayed on lightboxes. Each one highlights a different theme relating to the global story of trade in Indian textiles. 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