SAMAH RAFIQ

Samah Rafiq (b. 2000), is a London born and based Artist. She completed her Undergraduate degree at Camberwell College of Arts, graduating in 2022 with a First Class BA in Fine Art: Painting. She completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024.
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Well versed throughout a range of artistic mediums, Samah works mainly in oil paint. Often, she creates studies alongside her main pieces in gouache, graphite and/or coloured pencil. Samah draws her inspiration from all kinds of visual media, ranging from films, vintage magazines, and advertisements to packaging and shop store fronts.

Samah’s work mimics the subtle signs and motifs that provoke desire; weaponising our subconscious understanding of the visual signs that construct our desire to consume, her paintings mirror the hyperreal perfection in the very imagery of subversion. The subject matter is unanimously staged and curated, intentionally steeped in perfection and appeal- presented as if it exists solely as a commercial display.