Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow in 1958, and remains best known as one of the ‘New Glasgow Boys’. He shot to prominence in the mid-1980s with huge, exuberant figure paintings as redolent of fantasy and myth as they were attuned to the workings of contemporary thought and everyday life.
Initially studying Architecture at Glasgow School of Art, he transferred to the School of Drawing and Painting (1979 - 83). He won the Haldane Trust Award, Cargill Scholarship and Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Fund Award in the early 1980's. Acquisitions by the Tate in 1985 and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1986 led to his work being acquired by many public collections in the UK and internationally. Between 1986-87 he was artist in residence at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. Since then his work has developed in many different directions. He has brought the same creative energy of his paintings to printmaking, sculpture, installations, furniture and interior design and writing, regarding the exploration of new media as a central part of the art of communicating fresh ideas. Impossible to predict, his work breaks new ground when least expected, whilst always retaining its unique and unmistakable graphic stamp.
Initially studying Architecture at Glasgow School of Art, he transferred to the School of Drawing and Painting (1979 - 83). He won the Haldane Trust Award, Cargill Scholarship and Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Fund Award in the early 1980's. Acquisitions by the Tate in 1985 and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1986 led to his work being acquired by many public collections in the UK and internationally. Between 1986-87 he was artist in residence at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. Since then his work has developed in many different directions. He has brought the same creative energy of his paintings to printmaking, sculpture, installations, furniture and interior design and writing, regarding the exploration of new media as a central part of the art of communicating fresh ideas. Impossible to predict, his work breaks new ground when least expected, whilst always retaining its unique and unmistakable graphic stamp.