Professor Andrzej Klimowski

Professor Emeritus Andrzej Klimowski was Head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art for many years, and is now Professor Emeritus.

He was born to Polish parents in London and retains strong links with Poland, where he lived and worked for some years. During his career he has made films and written graphic novels. He has designed theatre posters and book covers for leading publishers. He continues to produce graphic novels with his wife Danusia Schejbal, work in graphics and produces illustrations. He also makes films. His work has been the subject of a retrospective at the National Theatre, London.

The Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter expressed his admiration for Klimowski: ‘A few words about Klimowski? Impossible. You can't capture an imagination such as his in a sentence or two. He is a free man and you'll never catch him...He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid.’