Somaya’s work has been picked in the newspaper’s ‘The T List’s Five Things We Recommend This Week’ section.
Somaya’s work is a celebration of Black femininity, influenced by Renaissance and rococo portraiture, the surrealism of Leonor Fini and David Lynch and pop stars such as Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
Read the piece on the New York Times website.
Find out about studying fine art at the University of Brighton.
Image, from left: Somaya Critchlow’s “Kim’s Blue Hair With Dog” (2019) and “Untitled (Mandolin)” (2019).
