Nikolas is a London based Polish artist specialising in gouache painting and printmaking.
His work is largely informed by his love of folk culture, which he believes to be a crossroads between daily life and animism, as well as a way through which the testament of 'common' people's lives and early religious practices have been preserved.
Nikolas interprets these practices to be animistic in nature and sees folklore as a secret language that allowed them to survive periods of strife, colonisation and proselytism.
He strives to make work that expresses qualities of beauty, awe and joy, and that speaks of the mundane as divine - themes inseparable from folk practices - while also creating a quiet, contemplative space that allows for a felt, rather an intellectual experience of his pieces within the context of folklore.
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Nikolas is a member of the Greenwich Printmakers Association and regularly exhibits at the Greenwich Printmakers Gallery as well as with various galleries in London and beyond.
Current Events
Autumn Colours
11 September - 27 October
Greenwich Printmakers Gallery
1a Greenwich Market, SE10 9HZ
10:30am - 5:30am
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Upcoming Events
Dream this Silly
4 October - 5 December
Greenwich Printmakers Gallery
1a Greenwich Market, SE10 9HZ
10:30am - 5:30am
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Prints 4 Presents
30 October - 5 January
Greenwich Printmakers Gallery
1a Greenwich Market, SE10 9HZ
10:30am - 5:30am
Past Exhibitions
2024 - Essential Structures, Gerald Moore Gallery, UK
2024 - RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-Seas League, UK
2024 - Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, UK
2023 - Chelsea Art Society's 74th Annual Exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, UK
2023 - RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-Seas League, UK
2023 - The Candid Arts Fair, Candid Arts Trust, UK
2022 - Win It!, Aire Place Studios, UK
2022 - Society of Graphic Fine Art's 101st Annual Open, Mall Galleries, UK
2022 - Spring Exhibition, London Lighthouse Gallery, UK
2022 - Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours' 210th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, UK
2021 - Exploring the I and You in an Era of Change, Virtual Group Exhibition, Laura I. Art Gallery, UK
2021 - Lichfield Folk Festival, Samuel Johnson Museum, UK
2021 - Awagami Paper Factory Miniprint Competition, Inbe Art Space, Japan
2021 - Dreaming of Folk, Solo Exhibition, Laura I. Art Gallery, UK
2020 - Autumn Salon, Candid Arts Trust, UK
2017-2019 - University of East London Annual Art Auction, UK
2017 - University of East London End of Year Exhibition, UK
Awards & Achievements
2022 – Third Place, D31 Gallery Art Prize
2021 – Second Place, Lichfield Arts’ art competition "Early One Morning"
2021 - Honourable mention, International Watermedia Competition, Watercolour Arts Southern Africa, "Expression of Hope", artist category
2020 - Longlist, Association of Illustrators' "World Illustration Awards", exploration category
Publications
2024 - Nikolas Wereszczynski: ‘Printmaking is a very physical process – the calluses make it inch ever closer to being a folk craft’, Greenwich Printmakers Gallery
2021 - Navigating Identity: The Artistic Journey of Nikolas Wereszczyński, The Pink Pickle Mag (previously known as The New East is Queer)
2021 - WYWIAD: Czym dzisiaj jest dla nas folk? (EN: INTERVIEW: What does folk mean to us today?), Cooltura #895, Pages 22 - 24
2020 - Sam, Art Hole #4, 2020, Pages 16 & 17
2018 - Mary Pünjer and Mary Pünjer with Mother, “ZuchwaÅ‚a, Mary Pünjer”, Replika #73, 2018, Pages 28 & 29
2017 - WoÅ‚chw, “Transcendent Trangressions: Dark Visions of Transgender Artists”, Independent zine by various artists, 2017