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Painter and draughtsman, born in Glasgow, of Polish extraction. Wiszniewski (pro- nounced Vishnevski) studied architecture at Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, 1975–9; then was at Glasgow School of Art, 1979–83. He won the Haldane Trust Award, Cargill Scholarship and Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Fund Award in the early 1980s and had his first solo exhibition at Compass Gallery in Glasgow in 1984. Air Gallery and Nicola Jacobs shows in London soon followed, as did the acquisition of work by Tate Gallery and Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1986 Wiszniewski moved to Northumberland and from 1986–7 was artist-in-residence at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, his term concluding with a solo show. The artist later moved back to Glasgow.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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