Remi Jablecki’s practice focuses on painting, drawing, 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 the personal experience and the relationship between gardening, labour practice, land, and queerness. Through multidisciplinary approaches, it takes various forms, often using abstracted qualities with narratives drawn from the vegetable garden and engagement with agriculture. It explores refuge and care for plants, while raising parallels between weeds, queerness, and our society. Jablecki ‘s abstracted compositions with rich mark-making, and the sense of touch build intimate images and blur his experience. The graphic motifs responses to the moments between engagement with natural and urban world. Through the sharp compositions he establishes sense of fragilities, difficulties, and the dependencies of life. He looks back to his roots and proudly uses his Polish experience, memories, 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. His interested in paint materiality and building images through the process of layering marks, washes, and tones of colours.
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
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