Exhibitions
Invited Exhibiting Artist
Paint Converse 2026
ACAP, 17 Claremont, Bradford, UK · 2026
Acrylic · Oil · Charcoal · Digital · Mixed Media
Member, British Art Network ↗ Instagram · @immanueltheartist ↗
Immanuel is a Nigerian-born, UK-based multidisciplinary visual artist. Some things (grief carried across generations, a memory that isn’t quite his own but lives in him anyway, the weight of a name or a heritage) don’t sit easily in words. Painting is where he goes to say them anyway.
Each piece starts from something he’s struggling to explain out loud: a feeling about home, ancestry, or identity that resists a clean sentence. Colour, pattern, and symbol become the language instead. A way of putting a feeling on a wall so someone else can stand in front of it and feel understood without needing it spelled out.
Immanuel is an Art Exhibition Coordinator and he co curated the BAFA 2026 art exhibition. His own work has been exhibited across the UK, including Vessel of Memory and The Pulse of Progress, shown at BAFA 2026, where he received the Crescendo and Bravo Awards.
Alongside his studio practice, Immanuel holds an MSc in Big Data Science and Technology (Distinction) from the University of Bradford, specialising in NLP and responsible AI. He doesn’t see that as separate from the art. Both are ways of looking for pattern in something messy and human, and each has taught him something the other couldn’t.
Rooted & Rising is a two-piece meditation on womanhood, resilience and climate justice. In Rooted in Her, a woman holds the symbol of her identity as new life grows through it, with the rising plant standing for education, resilience and the power of women to nurture change, and a reminder that women are leaders whose knowledge and voices can shape a fairer future. In She Carries the Tide, her body becomes water while a living canopy grows from her head, tying womanhood to the natural world. It reflects how women often carry the deepest consequences of climate change while sustaining their families and communities, yet she remains rooted, abundant and powerful. Together, the two works insist that climate justice cannot be achieved without women’s voices, knowledge and leadership.
Same Sky, Unequal Worlds is a two-piece climate-justice series exploring how people beneath the same atmosphere experience sharply unequal environmental realities. In Where the Rain Returns, a man stands beneath falling rain while a green leaf crosses his body as a symbol of life, nourishment, renewal, growth and resilience. In Beneath the Burning Sky, a man faces an overwhelming sun as barren branches extend from his body, representing drought, water scarcity, environmental degradation and the burden carried by communities with the fewest resources to adapt. Together, the works contrast renewal and scarcity, asking why the conditions that sustain life remain so unevenly distributed.
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