Works
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Between Saturn and the Moon (study)
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Black Balling Bertie
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Black Balling Bertie
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Bird Bath
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Bird Bath
    £ 5,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Between Saturn and the Moon
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Between Saturn and the Moon
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Boudica
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Boudica
    £ 5,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Building Bridges Study
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Building Bridges Study
    £ 2,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Building Bridges
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Building Bridges
    £ 12,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Chez Nous Cottage
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Chez Nous Cottage
    £ 4,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Creature Comfort
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Creature Comfort
    £ 7,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Looking at a Painting
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Looking at a Painting
    £ 9,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Sunday Afternoon at Chez Nous Cottage
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Time
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Time
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Olympia
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Olympia
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Long Distance
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Long Distance
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Sculptors Day Off
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Sculptors Day Off
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Drawing from Life
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Drawing from Life
    £ 7,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Colour Supplements
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Colour Supplements
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Head on Blue
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Head on Blue
    £ 6,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Dear Diary
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Dear Diary
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Boudica, Stain Glass
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Boudica, Stain Glass
    £ 3,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, The Magic Box
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, The Magic Box
    £ 15,000.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Chardin Dans Le Jardin
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Chardin Dans Le Jardin
    £ 9,500.00
  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Comforted by Nature
    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Comforted by Nature
    £ 9,000.00
Overview

Adrian Wiszniewski creates work characterised by a strong drawing element and fertile imagination.

Populated with contemplative figures set in vividly coloured Arcadian landscapes, his paintings are rich with symbolic, political and philosophical depths.

 

Adrian Wiszniewski RA was born in Glasgow in 1958 and trained at Glasgow School of Art from 1979 to 1983. He was a leading figure in the revival of figurative painting in a group known as the New Glasgow Boys. His work can be found in many international collections such as the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Tate Britain, London and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Wiszniewski has had solo exhibitions in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ghent and Tokyo.

 

'This exhibition/installation is tailored to a significant space -the front room at the end of a Georgian terrace, in Edinburgh that was conceived and built during the Age of the Enlightenment.

The paintings for the exhibition share a unifying background of black against which a series of images inform the function of the space. It is a place where colleagues gather on a Sunday and form alliances as in Building Bridges, and break former ones as in Black Balling Bertie.

Sunday afternoon is a time for looking at paintings and sitting for portraits (Looking at a Painting and Drawing from Life) and for comforting the sick (Creature Comforts and Comforted by Nature)It is also time for making that long distance phone call to a distant relative or friend (Long Distance), or for spending a lazy afternoon contemplating the previous weeks work and events (Dear Diary and The Sculptors Day Off). But most of all it’s a day of ritual and reflection. We relax reviewing the world in the Sunday papers and getting a much needed injection of colour into our lives (Colour Supplements)and we reflect on who we are our place in the world (Life Between Art and Nature) and the universe (Between Saturn and the Moon).

The exhibition was, in the main, inspired by the unearthing last year of a significant space in a Roman house in Pompeii which seems to have performed a function similar to that of The Front Room, with the intention of transcending that time frame and shining a light on both the past and the present.'

 

Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, 2025

Installation Views