Biography
Andrzej Jackowski (b. Penley, Wales, UK 1947) spent the first 11 years of his life with his Polish parents in a refugee camp on the English/ Welsh border. Hemade his first self-portrait, aged 14 and later studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1966-9), Falmouth School of Art (1972-3), and the Royal College of Art, London (1974-7). During his last two years as a student he produced the magazine Eleven 32 with the Scottish artist David Drain, also winning an Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship and the Rodney Burn Award and John Minton Scholarship. Jackowski became artist-in-residence at the University of Surrey in 1978-9, two years later being a prizewinner at Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts. He was a first prizewinner at the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, in 1991–2 with his picture The Beekeeper’s Son. He had a major show at Marlborough Fine Art in 1986, and in 1988 was represented in the Royal College of Art’s Exhibition Road show, by which time he had been on its staff for three years. There were additional solo exhibitions at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2000, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, 2002, and a Purdy Hicks show toured to University Gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle, 2003 which included over 80 works on paper spanning 1963-2003, of which the artist said that they fluctuated “between a kind of vigilant dreaming and being wide awake…. These images are poetic metaphors for something real, intimate and mysterious in our lives.” Jackowski drew on personal experience, films, poetry and art to produce haunting and intense works. For many years he has lived in Brighton, Sussex.
