SLAWN AND OPAKE DROP A SIX COLOUR PRINT SEPT 9

A twenty four year old who once worked a shift at Lagos skate shop Wafflesncream just designed the BRIT Awards statuette, the FA Cup Trophy, and now a six colour screenprint dropping at 4pm UK time on September 9. Slawn's resume reads like three different careers stapled together. It is actually one career that never stopped moving mediums.

NERVOUS, his new collaboration with Opake through Print Them All, is not a departure from the grillz and trophy work. It is the same instinct, take a street level material and put institutional weight behind it, running through printmaking now.

September 9. 4pm UK. One Print.

NERVOUS releases September 9, 2026 at 4pm UK time exclusively through printthemall.com, a six colour screenprint built as a collaboration between Slawn and fellow artist Opake, with early access sign up open now through the site and a direct contact line at hello@printthemall.com for anyone Print Them All wants to fast track. Each print is numbered and hand signed, the two markers that separate a limited edition from a poster, and the release marks the first time Slawn and Opake have worked together specifically under the Print Them All banner, even though the pair has released collaborative editions before. Six colours on a screenprint is not a small production choice. Every additional colour means another separate screen, another registration pass, another chance for the print to fail before it reaches a collector's wall.

Slawn Started at a Skate Shop in Lagos

Olaolu Slawn was born in Lagos on October 24, 2000, and came up inside Nigeria's skate and art scene working at Wafflesncream, one of the country's first skate shops. He formed the apparel group Motherlan there with friends Leo and Onyedi before Virgil Abloh, then artistic director of Louis Vuitton Men, noticed the work and gave it an early, visible cosign. Slawn moved to London in 2018 and enrolled at Middlesex University in 2019 to study graphic design, the same year his output started reaching the brands that would later commission him directly. That path, skate shop to Abloh's attention to a London design degree, is the actual production line behind everything that followed. NERVOUS did not happen because a screenprint studio discovered a promising artist. It happened because that artist already had Louis Vuitton, Rolex, Nike, Fly Emirates and Ferrari on his client list.

The Youngest Person to Design a BRIT Award

In 2023, Slawn designed the Britannia statuette for the BRIT Awards, becoming both the youngest person and the first Nigerian born artist to do so, a commission that put a street trained painter's hand on one of British music's most photographed objects. He followed it in 2024 by designing the FA Cup Trophy, moving from music's biggest domestic award show to English football's oldest competition inside twelve months. Those two commissions are not adjacent categories a gallery artist typically crosses. They are two entirely different institutions choosing the same signature because it reads as authentic to two audiences that rarely agree on anything else, music industry taste makers and a century old football federation.

Opake Brings the Six Colours

Opake's collaborative editions with Slawn are described, by the people printing them, as bringing together two distinct visual languages into work that reads as more than either artist produces solo, and NERVOUS is built to test that claim at production scale. A six colour screenprint forces both artists' marks to survive multiple registration passes without collapsing into each other, a technical constraint neither Slawn's looser figurative line nor a collaborator's competing style can fully control alone. That friction, not a clean merge, is usually what makes a two artist print worth collecting instead of just splitting the price.

Grillz to Screenprint: Slawn's Medium Keeps Moving

Slawn spent March working custom dental jewelry with Birmingham grillz specialist Kabil, pop art applied to a material fine art rarely touches. NERVOUS moves the same instinct back onto paper. It is the same graffiti to institution pipeline that turned Shawn Stussy's tag into streetwear's most recognized logo, proof that street trained mark making keeps finding new surfaces willing to take it seriously.

Temperature check, still rising. A BRIT Award, an FA Cup Trophy, Louis Vuitton, and now a numbered six colour print inside four years of moving to London is not a slow build, it is an artist collecting institutions the way most collect materials. Watch whether NERVOUS sells out before 4pm on the ninth even finishes ticking over.