Citizens with Flags
2025
Salman Toor's lithographic practice extends his painterly exploration of queer intimacy and diaspora experience into the realm of fine printmaking. Executed as a 10-colour lithograph on Somerset Tub sized satin radiant white paper, this work demonstrates the technical precision that has made Counter Studio in Margate a sought-after collaborator for contemporary artists. Part of an edition of 50, the print maintains Toor's characteristic ability to capture both personal vulnerability and broader cultural tensions within immigrant communities. The substantial sheet size of 83 × 128 cm allows for the kind of detailed figuration that has distinguished Toor's recent gallery exhibitions.
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- 10 Colour Lithograph on Somerset Tub sized satin radiant white 410gsm
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Produced by Counter Studio, Margate
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
British · b. 1977
Yiadom-Boakye shares Toor's commitment to intimate figurative oil painting that centers non-white subjects in psychologically rich, ambiguous interior settings. Both artists use a warm tonal palette and loose brushwork to evoke mood and interiority rather than explicit narrative.
Chantal Joffe
British · b. 1969
Joffe's expressive figurative painting explores private, domestic moments with a similarly warm and tender gaze, often depicting figures in interior spaces rendered with gestural oil paint. Her focus on vulnerability and intimacy in everyday life parallels Toor's thematic and aesthetic concerns closely.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Nigerian-American · b. 1983
Crosby similarly fuses Western figurative painting traditions with non-Western cultural imagery to depict intimate domestic interiors populated by figures navigating layered cultural identities. Both artists use the interior scene as a site for exploring diaspora, belonging, and queer or private selfhood.
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