[2] In 2007, after an extended period living and travelling in Japan, America and Europe, Azam became Artist-in-Residence at the County Hall Gallery London, with an exhibition of early and recent work.

In February 2010, accompanied by a camera crew, Azam to draw inspiration from the frozen tundra of Antarctica where he endured extreme weather conditions to produce a series of large abstract oil paintings.

Azam commented "I wanted to expose the desolate, silent, spacious and empty environment of the South Pole in probably the most crowded, hectic, busy and noisy space in the world"[13] Accompanying the poster display on the Liverpool Street station platform, Art Below took over a 3-metre wide digital projection screen,[14] piloting an international video link enabling London's travellers to view the Tokyo platform – the poster display and all the public activity going on around it.

Here we see Nasser Azam creating canvasses at temperatures of minus 40 degrees and buffeted by gales, he paints in different settings: on glaciers, by frozen lakes, in ice caves.

Azam prepared for this venture in the huge freezer of Billingsgate Butchers Market, devising brushes that would work in such temperatures, and acrylic paint that did not clog.

[13] In 2015, Nasser Azam painted the official portrait of Malala Yousafzai, an activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

Malala first attracted public attention through her anonymous diary published on BBC website, detailing life under Taliban occupation in Pakistan, and their attempts to ban education for girls.

After numerous interventions and intensive rehabilitation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom Malala has made a full recovery and continued her mission for the right of all children to education.

[22] On his pilgrimage, the artist was accompanied by the British Indian musician Soumik Datta who composed music on the site of Azam's inspiration.

The poem was given a new lease of life in the early 1990s, when the qwaliyan Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan translated it into song and introduced it to the West.