Samuel Reilly is a freelance writer in Edinburgh and a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews.

Simon Njami.
Tokini Peterside at Art X Lagos in 2017
Visitors to the Petit Musée de la Récade inside the Centre for Arts and Culture in Cotonou, Benin, on 17 January 2020.
Lonnie Holley in Birmingham, Alabama.
Yinka Shonibare, photographed at his studio in London in February 2020.
The Silhouette of the Artist (1907), Léon Spilliaert. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Photo: Hugo Maertens
Girl in a red kimono (detail; c. 1893), George Hendrik Breitner. Kunstmuseum Den Haag
The Tourist(detai; 2019), Amir H. Fallah.
(detail; 1969), Pat Douthwaite.Happiness is Green Shield Stamps
Bateau ivre en détresse (detail; 1987) Jacqueline de Jong.
‘The Coming Community’, installation view, Freelands Foundation, London, 2019.
Still from We Live in Silence (2017; detail), Kudzanai Chiurai.
Installation view of DC Semiramis (2019) by Tai Shani at the Turner Prize exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Photo: David Levene; © Tai Shani
Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890 (1890), Paul Signac. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Still Life (Natura Morta) (1949), Giorgio Morandi.