Intersection speaks true to its title, bringing together motifs from Ade Adesina’s Nigerian roots and Aberdeen where he is now based. Through a series of linocuts, lithographs and screenprints, all done spontaneously without sketches or plans, the artist displays his sheer skill. Adesina experiments with colour for the first time, which perhaps doesn’t do justice to the mastery he demonstrates in the rest of the show, evoking tattoos and simple symbols, silhouetted rather than painstakingly etched.

Despite this, his meaning comes through, commenting on the environmental crisis and immigration through his large-scale lino of a flower-filled boat. In the middle of the room is a ladder leading to unreachable doors, resting on the same cracked stone as the prints. Though this sculpture is simple, it serves to bring his illusory settings to life. Throughout, Adesina explores how signs shape the spaces we inhabit, and how they can designate varying meanings despite being initially fixed; personal yet prescribed. 

Ade Adesina: Intersection, Edinburgh Printmakers, until 10 November.