Edward Niznik’s creative practice reconstructs geometry found in urban grids and agricultural pattern through the creative tradition of landscape painting. These paintings are focused on capturing the effects of light and space within architectural structures while fleshing out the perimeters of natural and urban environments.

Niznik’s interest in the foundations of design found in our surroundings is rendered in abstracted compositions on canvas. The compositional shift between urban architecture and agricultural fields are reduced to a ‘patchwork’ of shapes. This reductive visual language of form, colour, line and shape mimic human interaction with landscape and environment; add, subtract, foster and neglect.

BIO

Edward Niznik is an emerging creative based in Brisbane. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Queensland College of Art. In 2007 he obtained a Diploma of Visual Art (Fine Art) from Southbank Institute of Technology. His work is held in private collections in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong as well as Brisbane Mater Hospital Collection. Edward Niznik was recently selected as a finalist for the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize (2011) for his painting 'South No.12'.

Works by Edward Niznik