On display at the local Museum of Art are works by British artists associated with the milieu of St Ives, a small port town in Cornwall, southwestern England.
Among the featured artists are Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Margaret Mellis, William Scott and Bryan Wynter.
They developed a specific painting and sculpture idiom, derived from the abstract structures of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
According to the museum website, the works by British artists "enter into an interesting resonance with the achievements of Polish artists of that period, in particular, the works of Sasza Blonder, Katarzyna Kobro, Leopold Lewicki, Władysław Strzemiński and Adam Marczyński."
The museum adds that the communities of British and Polish artists are linked by the work of Piotr Potworowski (1898-1962), an artist who lived and worked in Britain for 15 years, until his return to Poland in 1958.
The St Ives and Elsewhere exhibition comprises 39 works from the British Council Arts Collection, three works from the Tate Collection, works from the collections of the Museum of Art in Łódź, the National Museums in Warsaw, Poznań, Kraków and Gdańsk, as well as the Częstochowa Museum in southern Poland and private collections.
The exhibition, which runs until June 7, is the opening event of the UK/Poland Season 2025 project organized by the British Council, the Warsaw-based Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
The project lasts until November and include more than 100 events in 40 cities in Poland and the UK.
(mk/gs)