Remi Jablecki born in 1996, in Zielona Góra, Poland. He lives, works, and studies in Edinburgh. His practice focuses on painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, predominantly concentrating on canvas painting. Coming from Poland to live, grow and study in Edinburgh brings unique traditions, perspective, and experience to his visual language.
My practice crosses between painting, sculpture and drawing, predominantly focusing on oil painting. I use elements of vegetable plants and life stories to build up commentary and narrative on my personal experience of being gay. Growing up in Poland and migrating to the UK prompts the research on Polish arts in Scotland to enrich my visual stories and celebrate my heritage. My artworks engage with the different landscapes of gardening and labour to transform the forces and habits of the garden through the physicality of the paint and brushes. I try to focus on painting specificity as a medium and work along actions and gestures used in gardening, such as; “pulling”, “removing”, “scratching”, “washing”, and “weeding”, to influence my imagery and queer the painting. I observe the intricate growth, uncontrolled life, and unnatural interactions in the gardens, I see these as equal to the wider society and human behaviours. Through multidisciplinary approaches, such as expressive drawing, watercolours and observation, I record and accumulate stories for the developed painting works. Human interaction with rich and diverse hierarchies of plants creates complex tensions through movement, labour, and control, converting our landscapes continuously. The setting of the plants and the refuge they provide influence my practice and inform the stories.
Education:
MA Contemporary Art Practice - 2023/24, Edinburgh College of Art
BA(Hons) Painting - 2023, Edinburgh College of Art
UAL Foundation in Art and Design - 2020, Edinburgh College
High School of Fine Arts - 2016, Zielona Góra, Poland
Awards:
RSA John Kinross Scholarship to Florence - 2024
RSA Carnegie Scholarship for Painting – 2024
Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship – 2023
Global Graduate Show x Gucci 2023 – shortlisted
RSA New Contemporaries 2024 – Selected Artists
New Graduate Award, Society of Scottish Artists - 2023
Andrew Grant Travel & Equipment Bursary -2023
Astaire Prize 2023 – shortlisted
New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2023 – shortlisted
Eduardo Paolozzi Foundation Travel Prize – 2022
13th Biennale of Drawing and Painting of Art High School Students 2017 – shortlisted
Group Shows:
New Contemporaries 2024, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2024
Graduates 2024, Tatha Gallery, New-Port on Tay, 2024
MA CAP- On the site, Edinburgh College of Art, 2024
125th Annual Show, Society Scottish Artists, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, 2024
Work in progress, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
StartxArt Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2023
Graduate Show, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
Free Wine, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
124th Annual Exhibition SSA, Royal Scottish Academy, 2023
Artist in your Area, Edinburgh College of Art, 2022
Three, Edinburgh College of Art, 2022
Anatomy of the Museum, Anatomical Museum at the University of Edinburgh, 2022
Summer Show, Edinburgh Pallete, Edinburgh, 2022
Into the dark, Salt Space Gallery, Glasgow, 2022
Young Edinburgh Artists, WhiteSpace Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022
RE-KNEW-ED, Dundass St Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022
Persona, The Holy Art, London, 2021
CTR+ALT+DLT, Edinburgh College of Art, 2021
Remote Control, Edinburgh College of Art, 2020
Territoires, Mulhouse, France, 2017
13th Biennale of Drawing and Painting of Art High School Students – Gallery BWA Bielsko-Biała, 2017
Painter diary, The Regional and City Library, Zielona Gora, 2016
Solo shows:
2022- Dead Inside, Detour Espresso, Edinburgh
2020- Traumatica, Kafe Kweer, Edinburgh,
2017- The Painter Journey, Gallery El Szapo Bar, Zielona Gora, Poland
2017- Painter Diary, Gallery Hydrozagadka, Zielona Gora, Poland