Jacqueline Poncelet

Born in Liege, Belgium, Jacqueline Poncelet has a background in ceramics, having studied at Wolverhampton College of Art and the Royal College of Art from 1966 until 1972. She is well-known for her early work in bone china, and for her more sculptural works in ceramics after 1980. From the mid 80s she extended her practice to include painting, sculpture, installation and public art commissions. Poncelet was the recipient of a British Council Arts Fellowship in 1978 which enabled her to travel extensively in the USA. She has been an influential teacher and lecturer worldwide. In 2000 she was a curator of the British Art Show and in 2004 a board member for the prestigious Artes Mundi exhibition at the National Museum of Wales. She is represented in important public collections throughout the world, including London's Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Stedeljk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2012 she completed her largest Commission to date for Art on the Underground at Edgware road tube station. The artwork called ‘Wrapper’ consists of large enamel panels covered in pattern. In 2021 MIMA won the Freelands Award with Jacqueline Poncelet. This award enabled Elinor Morgan to curate a retrospective of Poncelet’s work ‘In the Making’ along with a monograph published in conjunction with Hurtwood Press Ltd.