Adrian Wiszniewski - Artisan

Adrian Wiszniewski (b.1958), Artisan 1998, oil on canvas, 68.5 x 55 cm, Lismore Regional Gallery Permanent Collection, Donated through the Federal Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Rex Irwin, 2010. Photo: Parsa Jamalpour.

About the artwork
Adrian Wiszniewski belonged to the group of Glasgow-based artists, known as The Glasgow Boys, who led a revival of figurative painting in Scottish art during the 1980s. In Wiszniewski's early work, the artist created densely patterned picture surfaces, covered with marks and squiggles. 

Later this gave way to the use of a plainer background. However, the same dreamy, awkward-looking young men still appeared in his paintings. His work lies within the poetic, romantic tradition of British art. Artisan, pensive and mysterious, belongs to this period.

About the artist
Adrian Wiszniewski was born in Glasgow. He studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, then attended Glasgow School of Art from 1979 to 1983. He also works in printmaking, sculpture, installations, furniture, interior design, and writing.

Conserved by ICS / International Conservation Services 
Conservation notes: Deframed; dry surface cleaned and aqueous cleaned; cracks and unstable media was consolidated; media losses were infilled and inpainted; re-stretched onto new stretcher and re-framed into new frame.

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