Creator of boxed constructions, printmaker, born in St Andrews, Fife, his parents Polish exiles. He explored suffering and exile in his work, which used photographs of unknown people and places and a range of domestic items which he specially aged. In 1984–5 did summer studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland, then in 1984–8 gained an honours degree in fine art, printmaking, from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, doing his postgraduate diploma there, 1988–9. Gained a Go and See grant from the Prince’s Trust, 1990, and a Go Ahead grant to work with the Polish sculptor Piotr Bies in 1992. In 1991 was artist-in-residence at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Group shows included Polonia Society, Cracow, 1984; Open Prints Exhibition, Bankside Gallery and New Generation Artists at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, both 1988; and CD3, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 1994.