Joy Labinjo: 'When I’m painting I feel happy and alive'

The young British-Nigerian painter talks about finding inspiration in British black art of the 1980s, the impact of BLM, and what’s getting us through Covid-19“I like coming to the studio and it just being me,” British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo says when I ask whether she gets lonely. The 25-year-old’s career has risen rapidly since graduating from Newcastle University in 2017. That year she won the Woon art prize, then in 2019 had a solo exhibition at the Baltic; she n