Adrian Wiszniewski

Adrian Wiszniewski (born 1958) is a Scottish artist and one of the members of the New Glasgow Boys a group of artists who emerged from Glasgow School of Art and led the resurgence of Scottish figurative painting in the late 20th century.

Other members of this group included the late Steven Campbell, who was a close friend of Adrian, Peter Howson and Ken Currie.

Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow in 1958.

He was educated at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and then the Glasgow School of Art from 1979 to 1983.

Under the tutelage of artists like Alexander Moffat in the 1980s the four later went on the attain national and international status.

He was influenced by New Image painting in the early 1980s, combining figurative art with social commentary.

And he belonged to a group known as the New Glasgow Boys where he played a leading role.

They were known in the mid-1980s with their "figure paintings as redolent of fantasy and myth as they were attuned to the workings of contemporary thought and everyday life."

Wiszniewski won the Haldane Trust Award (1982), the David Cargill Scholarship (1983), the Mark Rothko Memorial Award (1984), the I.C.C.F. Best Design Award New York (1993) and the Lord Provost Gold Medal of the City of Glasgow (1999).

Wiszniewski's paintings are held in collections including:

He gave his first solo show in 1984 in London and Glasgow; the Tate acquired some of his paintings at that time.

Between 1986 and 1987 his paintings resided at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

Since then he tried different directions in his work.

He was engaged with printmaking, sculpture, installations, furniture and interior design and writing.

As an author he explored "new media as a central part of the art of communicating fresh ideas".

In 2011 an exhibition of his recent paintings were shown at 108 Fine Art, Harrogate in a collaborative exhibition with the musician and artist Edwyn Collins.

He has worked with the Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra in the production of the musical narrative The Girl, The Boy and The Hag and Adrian wrote and illustrated an accompanying book.