Malinowski was born in Warsaw, Poland and studied at the Academy of Fine Art. In 1980 he moved to London and studied at Chelsea School of Art. He has used a variety of different media in his work, often producing large-scale installations and working with video. He chooses the medium for the appropriateness to an idea with which he concerns himself: painting lending itself to an examination of colour, scale and line. The surface of his painting is carefully and thoroughly wrought although the effect from a distance is more gestural and sweeping than this would suggest.

Glossary

  • Medium

    Refers to either the material used to create a work of art, craft or design, i.e. oil, bronze, earthenware, silk; or the technique employed i.e. collage, etching, carving. In painting the medium refers to the binder for the pigment, e.g. oil, egg, acrylic dispersion. The plural form is media.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.

  • Video

    Images recorded on videotape or on optical disc to be viewed on television screens, or projected onto screens. The medium through which these images are recorded and displayed.