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As a child Jackowski experienced life in a Polish camp for refugees in the north of England. He has lived, worked and taught in Brighton since the mid-1980s and early memories still surface in his work.

Jackowski won a travelling scholarship and the John Minton Scholarship at the Royal College of Art and was Artist in Residence at the University of Sussex, 1978-9. From 1980 he taught in the Brighton Fine Art department and continued to exibit, sell and win painting an printmaking prizes including John Moores, Liverpool, 1991.

1947 Born, North Wales of Polish parents
1966-67 Camberwell School of Art
1967-69 Falmouth School of Art
1972-73 Falmouth School of Art
1974-77 Royal College of Art

AWARDS

1978-79 South-East Arts Fellowship, University of Surrey
1978 Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts Major Prize
1989 Tree of Life, Prizewinner
1991 First Prize, John Moores 17 Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 The Remembered Present Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2008 David Krut Projects, New York
2007 Vigilant Dreamer: Prints, University Gallery and Baring Wing, University
of Northumbria, Newcastle, A Space in the Dark, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2006 The Charleston Trust, Lewes, East Sussex
2005 Depth Charges, Purdy Hicks Gallery
2003 Drawing Retrospective 1963-2003, Purdy Hicks Gallery; University
Gallery, University of Northumbria; University of Brighton Gallery,
Brighton
2002 Finding our Way, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Starr Gallery, Lewes
2000 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, White Gallery, Brighton
1999 Stored, Purdy Hicks Gallery
1997 Kordegarda Gallery, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Albums and Aliens: Purdy Hicks Gallery; Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
1994 Reveries of Dispossession, Purdy Hicks Gallery; Brighton Museum &
Art Gallery; Ferens Museum & Art Gallery, Hull, Marlborough Fine Art
1989 Marlborough Fine Art, London, Gardner Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Castle Museum, Nottingham
1984 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Touring exhibition: St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Dartington Hall; South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London