Emilia Momen

A modern day version of Manet’s Dejuener sur L’Herbe. The females though are dressed, unlike the original, and the men are in far less dominating poses. The artist has deliberately shown men and women here as equal, rather than Manet’s implication that the women at the picnic were silent, naked figures invited purely to entertain the men. Momen has placed herself in the background with her friends at the front, who are Emmie McNair, Dhruv Duggal & Otis Kelly.

Emilia Momen, b 2001, is a figurative oil painter based in London. She studied fine art at Fine Arts Hampstead, Camberwell UAL and Charles Cecil in Florence. Her painting, ‘Pink Man’ was exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition in 2021. This year Momen has won the Young Masters Women Artist Award, been chosen by The Royal Society of Portrait painters, now showing at The Mall Galleries SW1, and tipped as one of the top 10 artist to invest in by Atelier Art Advisory.