Adrian Wiszniewski valuation
New Glasgow Boy of dreaming young men in gardens, drawn with a decorative, unhurried line.
Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow in 1958, trained first as an architect and then at Glasgow School of Art, and emerged in the early 1980s with Peter Howson, Ken Currie and Steven Campbell as one of the New Glasgow Boys.
What a work by Adrian Wiszniewski is worth
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Bio
Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow in 1958, trained first as an architect and then at Glasgow School of Art, and emerged in the early 1980s with Peter Howson, Ken Currie and Steven Campbell as one of the New Glasgow Boys. Where the others painted muscle and violence, Wiszniewski painted languid, dreaming young men in gardens and interiors, surrounded by foliage and pattern, in a flowing decorative line that owes something to Matisse and to Art Nouveau. He has worked across painting, printmaking, ceramics, stained glass, furniture and film, and lives in Renfrewshire.
A principally British and Scottish market, led by the large 1980s paintings, which are the historically significant part of the output and the period institutions collected. Later work is a broader field. Wiszniewski draws prolifically and the works on paper — crayon, ink, gouache — are numerous and are the accessible end. He is also a substantial printmaker in woodcut, etching and screenprint. Large canvases from the 1980s are frequently on unprimed or lightly primed grounds, so staining and surface condition are worth examining.
Glasgow School of Art, the awards and the Walker
Wiszniewski studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and then at Glasgow School of Art from 1979 to 1983, where Alexander Moffat was among the teachers of the New Glasgow Boys. He won the Haldane Trust Award in 1982, the David Cargill Scholarship in 1983 and the Mark Rothko Memorial Award in 1984, and in 1986 and 1987 his paintings were shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
He received the Lord Provost's Gold Medal of the City of Glasgow in 1999. In 2011 he showed new paintings with the musician and artist Edwyn Collins at 108 Fine Art in Harrogate, and he wrote and illustrated the book for The Girl, The Boy and The Hag, a musical narrative for orchestra.
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