Andrzej Jackowski:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Please join us for a talk by painter Andrzej Jackowski on Friday 15th February at 6.30pm to celebrate the opening of his exhibition.
Free – All welcome.

Andrzej Jackowski was born in 1947 in Wales, the son of Polish emigrees who had survived the Second World War.
They lived in a refugee camp near Crewe with a general, though unfulfilled, expectation that they would be repatriated before very long. Later they moved to London, where his parents separated when he was about 14 years old. "About the same time I painted a self-portrait, and made a decision to become an artist."
He attended Camberwell School of Art, Falmouth School of Art, and the Royal College of Art in London, eventually obtaining a fellowship to Surrey University. While there a reading of The Sleepwalker by Arthur Koestler, inspired the painting The Tower of Copernicus. "I had one of those Proustian moments, where a passage describing Copernicus, the Polish astronomer, living in his tower with an open view of the stars at night, brought back memories of lying in bed, as a child, in the camp, and thinking those awesome black hole kind of thoughts of how the world came to be and how it would end. In the painting I had stumbled on to an image that resonated with the refugee huts of my childhood – made out of wood and tar – but as well a space that echoed with the trauma, loss and resilience of the time my parents had been through in the war, and since; of losing their homes and families as well as their sense of place in the world."

Jackowski has continued to explore images of dispossession, loss and identity ever since.
Andrzej Jackowski currently lives and paints in Brighton, lecturing part-time at the University. He is represented by Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
In association with Purdy Hicks Gallery & Northumbria University Gallery.

GALLERY 1
6 February – 16 March 2013

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Ymunwch â ni am anerchiad gan y paentiwr Andrzej Jackowski ar Nos Wener 15 Chwefror am 6.30pm i ddathlu agoriad ei arddangosfa.
Am ddim – Croeso i bawb.

Ganwyd Andrzej Jackowski ym 1947 yng Nghymru, yn fab i fewnfudwyr o wlad Pwyl a oroesodd yr Ail Ryfel Byd. Buont yn byw mewn gwersyll ffoaduriaid ger Crewe gyda’r gobaith y byddant yn dychwelyd i’w gwlad eu hunain maes o law, ond ni ddigwyddodd hyn. Wedyn symudodd y teulu i Lundain, lle bu’r rhieni’n gwahanu pan ‘roedd Andrzej tua 14 oed. "Tua’r un amser bu i mi baentio hunan-bortread, a chymerais y penderfyniad i fod yn artist."
Mynychodd Ysgol Gelf Camberwell, Ysgol Gelf Falmouth, a Choleg Celf Brenhinol Llundain, cyn ennill ysgoloriaeth i Brifysgol Surrey. Tra yno, bu darlleniad o The Sleepwalker gan Arthur Koestler yn ysbrydoli’r paentiad The Tower of Copernicus. "Cefais un o’r enydau Proustaidd hynny, lle ‘roedd darn yn disgrifio Copernicus, y seryddwr o wlad Pwyl yn byw yn ei dŵr gyda golygfa agored o’r sêr yn y nos, yn dod ag atgofion yn ôl o orwedd yn y gwely, fel plentyn, yn y gwersyll, ac yn meddwl am y pethau du, dwys hynny megis sut y daeth y byd i fodolaeth a sut y bydd yn dod i ben. Yn y paentiad deuthum ar draws delwedd oedd yn atseinio gyda chytiau ffoaduriaid fy mhlentyndod - wedi eu gwneud allan o bren a thar - ond hefyd lle a oedd yn atseinio gyda thrawma, colled a gwydnwch fy rhieni yn ystod cyfnod y rhyfel ac ers hynny; o golli eu cartrefi a’u teuluoedd yn ogystal â’u synnwyr o’u lle yn y byd.”

Mae Jackowski wedi parhau i archwilio delweddau o ddadleoliad, colled ac hunaniaeth yn ei waith.
Mae Andrzej Jackowski yn byw ac yn gweithio yn Brighton ar hyn o bryd, yn darlithio rhan-amser yn y Brifysgol. Cynrychiolir ef gan Oriel Purdy Hicks, Llundain
Mewn cydweithrediad ag Oriel Purdy Hicks & Oriel Prifysgol Northumbria.

ORIEL 1
6 Chwefror - 16 Mawrth 2013

Am fwy o wybodaeth cliciwch yma.

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