Overview

Licznerski sets delicate tensions between opposing states, holding and tightening the looseness of painting until a new language emerges. He is influenced by the situational navigation of urban fabrics, censorship, the theatre of existence, and the beautiful accidents our cities subconsciously spew.

 

His process-driven works are unapologetically physical: made with loaded brush, body, and hand. Preoccupations with duality, trace, boundary, and consequence are laid bare. Even if seemingly untethered, there is an air of unequivocal order from manipulation and overpainting. His layering in building the pictorial, blurs the sequencing in which they unravel.

 

Licznerski's approach challenges preconceived agreements of the immediately accessible and throw-away contemporary times, redirecting focus and permanence to hold intrigue and alter thought. He honours beauty in areas outside of his control and the permanence of unrepeatable moments.

Works
Exhibitions
Studio shots
Bibliography

Born in Scotland in 1987, Licznerski studied at Edinburgh College of Art and now lives and works in London.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 'Little Sparta', Cadogan Solo, Milan, Italy
  ‘High Above Black Sea’, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019   ‘Beyond The Surface’, Portuguese Embassy, London, UK
  ‘Nothing Is Ever The Same’, PADA Studios Paint Factory, Lisbon, Portugal
  ‘Trailblazer’, Epping, London, UK

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024  

'What Abstract Art Means To Me,' Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

2020 ‘For Kev And Scott’, Ltd Ink Corporation, Edinburgh, UK.
2019 ‘Perhaps We Should Have Stayed’, Warbling/Hoxton 253, London, UK.
  'Season Three Exhibition', Thirdbase Studios, Lisbon, Portugal.
 

'PADA / Thirdbase', PADA Studios, Lisbon, Portugal.

  ‘Aeroplane Mode’, The Chopping Block Gallery, London, UK.
  ‘Cast Contemporaries’, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
  ‘New Contemporaries’, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK.
 
ART FAIRS
2023  

ENTER Art Fair, Alzueta Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
Alzueta Gallery Residency - Empordà
Thirdbase Residency - Lisbon

The Eaton Grant Award 

Andrew Grant Bequest Prize
Hugh F. Martin Award
J.W. Scott Award
Janice Webster Award
Annan Award