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Born:1947 Penley camp, Wrexham, North Wales

Biography

Painter, printmaker and teacher, Andrzej Jackowski was born to Polish war refugees in Penley camp (in an area that became known as 'Little Poland'), in Wrexham, North Wales in 1947.

He spent the first 11 years of his life in the camp, close to the English/Welsh border, in wooden huts covered in tar, where Polish was predominantly spoken, and his parents carried cards identifying them as ‘aliens’. Jackowski and his brother were sent to Nottingham to learn English, after which the family then moved to London.

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Jackowski’s parents separated when he was 14, the same age he produced his first self-portrait and decided to become a painter. He studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London from 1966–69, Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall from 1972–73 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1974–77.

He produced the magazine Eleven 32 with David Drain during his last two years as a student and was the r