Adrian Wiszniewski

Dates: b.1958

Gender: Male

Nationality: British

Adrian Wiszniewski studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, and the Glasgow School of Art. Wiszniewski was part of the ‘New Glasgow Boys’ a term coined for the young painters who came out of the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s and came to prominence with the 1987 exhibition, Vigorous Imagination at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Read more…

Biography:

Adrian Wiszniewski studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, and the Glasgow School of Art. Wiszniewski was part of the ‘New Glasgow Boys’ a term coined for the young painters who came out of the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s and came to prominence with the 1987 exhibition, Vigorous Imagination at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Their work was characterized as having decisively broken with the prevailing popularity of minimalism and abstraction. Critics have often said that Wiszniewski’s work has a poetic quality to it; describing it as belonging to the 19th-century romantic tradition in British art.

Though he is most often thought of as a painter and printmaker Wiszniewski has worked with media such as neon, tapestry, sculpture and ceramics during his career.

Wiszniewski’s work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, New York, the Tate Gallery, London and Setegaya, Tokyo.