Workshop
Arist-Led Printmaking Workshop with Nkem Okwechime
22 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Sat, 22 Apr
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Goethe-Institut Glasgow
Address
- 3 Park Circus
- Glasgow
Scotland - G3 6AX
- United Kingdom
Artist and Glasgow Print Studio Prize recepient Nkem Okwechime leads this 3-hour workshop on screen printing.
STIR MIX CREATE is a series of artist-led workshops at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow that explore creativity as a way to mine past memory, explore the present, and to imagine futures.
About
The workshop begins with a short artist's talk about printmaking and Nkem's own practice, which explores inherited images (from both family photos and from the public memory and colonial archive), reworking these to claim space for and affirm the presence of Black British artists and Black lives in general. Participants will then be taught two different screen printing technqiues and will have a chance to experiment immediately with Nkem's designs. Materials are provided and everyone will be able to take home the prints they produce.
Nkem Okwechime is a Glasgow-based, South London-born artist who is Scottish Nigerian. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Nkem dedicated his GSA graduating show to his mother, whose initials are found in the exhibition title, M.R.L.C. Takeover. Also shown at the Pipe Factory, the show presented designs that Nkem incorporated into wallpaper, which he printed in green and black and used to paper the surrounding walls. At first glance, the wallpaper evokes the 19th-century Victorian parlour but on closer inspection, the patterns reveal the artist's own images that are influence by African design. Another motif deftly reworks the images of empire, using a postage stamp blown up to the size of a portrait and replacing the head of the English monarch with an image of the cowrie shell, a national symbol of Nigeria that also refers to an older, precolonial alternative economy of exchange based on these shells.
STIR MIX CREATE is a series of artist-led workshops exploring creativity as a way to mine past memory, explore the present, and to imagine futures. Workshops are free and no prior experience is needed. The series began in 2022 and is continuing this year with the artist and award-winning printmaker Nkem Okwechime, the multimedia artist Sooun Kim, and choreographer and performer Farah Saleh.
Coffee, tea and water are provided.
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