Details
| First Name | Remi |
| Last Name | Jablecki |
| Username | remijablecki |
| Website | |
| Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture |
| Themes | Figurative, Identity, Political, Portraits, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | Remi Jablecki’s 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. Inspired by the practice of gardening and Polish heritage, his developed works draw attention to queer bodies and the relationship between gardening, labour practice, land, and queerness. Through multidisciplinary approaches, it takes various forms, often using storytelling and theatrical qualities with narratives drawn from the vegetable garden and engagement with agriculture. It explores queer refuge and care for plants, while raising parallels between weeds, queerness, and our society. Jablecki ‘s abstracted compositions with sharp graphic motifs represent fragilities, difficulties, and the dependencies of life. The large-scale paintings focus on mark-making, contrast, and relation of colours, while celebrating the painting process. He looks back to his roots and proudly uses his Polish experience, memoires and manners. Remi establishes the rich and tangible relationship between growing, giving and maturing, translating this to contemporary dilemmas of equality, sharing the land, and belonging. |
Biography
| Biography | Remi Jablecki born in 1996, in Zielona Góra, Poland. He lives, works, and studies in Edinburgh. In 2016, he graduated from High School of Fine Arts in Zielona Góra, Poland. He gained BA(Hons) Painting Degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2023, and currently studies his MA in Contemporary Art Practice at ECA.
Awards: Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship – 2023 Global Graduate Show x Gucci 2023 – shortlisted RSA New Contemporaries 2024 – Selected Artists New Graduate Award 2023 – Society of Scottish Artists 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
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
Group exhibitions: 2023- 125th SSA Annual Exhibition, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr 2023, Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London 2023- Graduate Show, Edinburgh College of Art 2023- Free Wine, Edinburgh College of Art 2023- 30×30, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2022- Young Edinburgh Artists, WhiteSpace Gallery, Edinburgh 2022- RE-KNEW-ED, Dundass St Gallery, Edinburgh 2021- Persona, The Holy Art, London 2021- CTR+ALT+DLT, Edinburgh College of Art 2020- Remote Control, Edinburgh College of Art 2017- Territoires, Mulhouse, France 2017- 13th Biennale of Drawing and Painting of Art High School Students – Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland 2016- Painter diary, The Regional and City Library, Zielona Gora, Poland |