Dilal Singh
My work is about reconstructing society to become a much fairer and equal place for everyone and The art work you wish you bought twenty years from now.
About
![Dilal Singh](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_summary_free_image_webp/public/2023-05/Dilal_Singh_%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=YwRF6ibR)
My art practice takes an empirical view on social and political issues, as a second-generation Scottish Indian, born and raised in Edinburgh, I have often found myself on the periphery of society as an observer rather than a participant. This isolation allowed me to see and understand why I was made to feel like this and make me aware of many other people who have been made to feel marginalised. My work is a response to this, by scrutinising the wider structures that control the societies we live in today. I Focus on Male mental health (Toxic Masculinity), Capitalism and the Environment which I believe are intrinsic to the traditional ideologies that are beginning to be broken down and re imagined on a global scale. I want my artwork to help viewers see change is possible within these structures, and to encourage a change of habits which will allow for these changes to be implemented into society. I use painting, printmaking and sculpture, to express the deconstruction and reconstruction of these societal structures and to express a free form of thinking, to encourage people to act differently in society to help reduce social inequalities.
Change Begins with you
![A wall hung sculpture of shattered fragments of glass, with prints on either side of the same shards.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/Dilal_Singh_%20%281%29.jpg?itok=66Zaneth)
Miles and George
![a diptych, with male trumpet players on each convas, one upside down, with gold paint dripping down the canvas. text that reads give it a rest George.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/Dilal_Singh_%20%283%29.jpg?itok=zVe1Vk_k)
Steal sculpture of shards
![Pieces of steel cut to represent mirrored glass shards, bent and curved then welded together.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/Dilal_Singh_%20%284%29.jpg?itok=kxzltKRL)