Jacqui Poncelet

'''Jacqui Poncelet''' (born 1947), also known as '''Jacqueline Poncelet''', is a Belgian artist. Poncelet began her art career as a ceramist in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="CRAFTSCOUNCIL" /> In the 1980s, her practice expanded to include painting, sculpture and public art.<ref name="TubeArt" />

==Early life and education== Jacqui Poncelet was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1947.<ref name="CRAFTSCOUNCIL" /><ref name="DOB1">{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet - Creative Folkestone Triennial |url=https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/artists/jacqueline-poncelet/ |website=www.creativefolkestone.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> From 1964 to 1969, she studied ceramics at Wolverhampton College of Art.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |title='The art world were, "Don't show me that, I'll vomit{{"'}}: Jacqueline Poncelet on her controversial carpets |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/02/the-art-world-were-dont-show-me-that-ill-vomit-jacqueline-poncelet-on-her-controversial-carpets|first=Mark|last=Brown |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 February 2024 |date=2 February 2024}}</ref> From 1969 to 1972, she studied industrial ceramics at the Royal College of Art.<ref name="CRAFTSCOUNCIL" /><ref name="DOB1"/>

==Art career== thumb|Wide view of ''Wrapper'' Poncelet has worked in various media, included ceramics, collage, painting, sculpture, textiles and wallpaper. Early in her career she designed a series of carpets using remnants discarded by carpet shops, with Poncelet describing this work as "a representation of Britain".<ref name="guardian" />

Her 2012 public artwork ''Wrapper'' can be seen at the Edgware Road (Circle line) Tube station in London.<ref name="WrapperTubeReview">{{cite web |last1=Montgomery |first1=Angus |title=Art on the Underground presents Wrapper by Jacqueline Poncelet |url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/may-2012/art-on-the-underground-presents-wrapper-by-jacqueline-poncelet/ |website=Design Week |language=en-UK |date=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="TubeArt">{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet: Wrapper — Art in Public |url=https://artinpublic.art/works/27/wrapper |website=artinpublic.art |language=en}}</ref> Art on the Underground commissioned Poncelet to produce designs for the {{Convert|1500|sqm||abbr=}} of vitreous enamel cladding that would become the outer shell of a new substation connected to the station.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wrapper|url=https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/wrapper-by-jacqueline-poncelet/|website=Art on the Underground|language=en|access-date=2020-05-29}}</ref> The work was unveiled in November 2012, a mosaic of 700 decorated panels of various patterns inspired by local history.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marylebone's waterways, transport systems, architecture and nature inspire Art on the Underground's largest artwork at Edgware Road Tube station|url=https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2012/november/marylebones-waterways-transport-systems-architecture-and-nature-inspire-art-on-the-undergrounds-largest-artwork-at-edgware-road-tube-station|date=19 November 2012|website=Transport for London|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Edgware Road substation by Jacqueline Poncelet - Icon Magazine|url=https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/news/item/9915-edgware-road-substation-by-jacqueline-poncelet|website=iconeye|language=en-gb|date=10 April 2013| access-date=2020-05-29|archive-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102223521/https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/news/item/9915-edgware-road-substation-by-jacqueline-poncelet|url-status=dead}}</ref> Poncelet's other large-scale public works include a terrazzo dado for an Edinburgh International Festival building, and decorative vinyl for windows in the heart centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, Oxford.<ref name="guardian" />

In 2016, Poncelet won the Freelands Award, a prize that enables a British arts organisation to present an exhibition by a female artist who "may not yet have received the acclaim or public recognition that her work deserves". Her work was consequently displayed in a major retrospective by the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in early 2024.<ref name="guardian" />

==Collections== Her work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum,<ref name="V&A">{{cite web |last1=Museum |first1=Victoria and Albert |title=Dish {{!}} Poncelet, Jacqui {{!}} Poncelet, Jacqui {{!}} V&A Explore The Collections |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O118576/dish-poncelet-jacqui/ |website=Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections |date=1985 |language=en}}</ref> the United Kingdom Crafts Council,<ref name="CRAFTSCOUNCIL">{{cite web |title=Maker {{!}} Crafts Council CollectionsOnline |url=https://collections.craftscouncil.org.uk/makers/maker?id=AUTH823 |website=collections.craftscouncil.org.uk}}</ref> the Tate Museum,<ref name="TATE">{{cite web |title=Jacqui Poncelet born 1947 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jacqui-poncelet-8472 |website=Tate}}</ref> the Art Institute of Chicago,<ref name="AIC">{{cite web |last1=Poncelet |first1=Jacqueline |title="Lick" |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/259103/lick |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |date=1988 |language=en}}</ref> the Museum of Modern Art, New York,<ref name="MOMA">{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/4683 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,<ref name="guardian" /> and the British Council.<ref name="BRITCOUNCIL">{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet {{!}} Artists {{!}} Collection {{!}} British Council − Visual Arts |url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/poncelet-jacqueline-1947/objects/all/initial/a |website=visualarts.britishcouncil.org}}</ref>

==Personal life== Poncelet was previously married to the sculptor Richard Deacon.<ref name="guardian" /><ref name="Aber">{{cite web |title=Artist/Maker: Jacqueline Poncelet - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries |url=http://museum.aber.ac.uk/person/996 |website=museum.aber.ac.uk}}</ref> As of 2024, she divides her time between homes in London and South Wales, with her partner Anthony Stokes.<ref name="guardian" />

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