exhibitions & events 2026

Nkem Okwechime

A new solo exhibition by South London-born Scottish Nigerian visual artist and printmaker Nkem Okwechime.

Bringing together works produced over the past 12 months, the exhibition includes pieces developed during his residency with National Museums Scotland, alongside work from the Okolo installation presented last summer and a series of new additions created this year.

Okwechime’s practice explores identity, perception, and diasporic experience through printmaking and expanded material approaches. His current work enters a more research-driven phase, shaped by archive visits, travel-based research, and sustained experimentation in the studio. At the centre of this development is Okolo, his alter ego through which the work navigates psychological states, projection, and the tension between internal identity and external perception.

Rooted between the UK and West Africa, the work reflects layered experiences of place, memory, and self-definition. The exhibition offers an early insight into an ongoing body of research and the evolving direction of new work moving into 2026.

Okwechime was the recipient of the Glasgow Print Studio/Glasgow School of Art Prize in 2022.

Image: Nkem Okwechime, 'Ikenga n’echere - Ikenga is waiting', 2025, screenprint ,70 x 70 cm, edition of 5.