# Jacqui Poncelet > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacqui_Poncelet > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacqui_Poncelet.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Poncelet > Source revision: 1352873772 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Belgian artist (born 1947)}} '''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. In the 1980s, her practice expanded to include painting, sculpture and public art. ==Early life and education== Jacqui Poncelet was born in [Liège](/source/Li%C3%A8ge), Belgium, in 1947.{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet - Creative Folkestone Triennial |url=https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/artists/jacqueline-poncelet/ |website=www.creativefolkestone.org.uk |language=en}} From 1964 to 1969, she studied ceramics at [Wolverhampton College of Art](/source/Wolverhampton_College_of_Art).{{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](/source/The_Guardian) |access-date=19 February 2024 |date=2 February 2024}} From 1969 to 1972, she studied industrial ceramics at the [Royal College of Art](/source/Royal_College_of_Art). ==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". Her 2012 public artwork ''Wrapper'' can be seen at the [Edgware Road (Circle line)](/source/Edgware_Road_tube_station_(Circle%2C_District_and_Hammersmith_%26_City_lines)) Tube station in London.{{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}}{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet: Wrapper — Art in Public |url=https://artinpublic.art/works/27/wrapper |website=artinpublic.art |language=en}} [Art on the Underground](/source/Art_on_the_Underground) commissioned Poncelet to produce designs for the {{Convert|1500|sqm||abbr=}} of [vitreous enamel](/source/vitreous_enamel) cladding that would become the outer shell of a new substation connected to the station.{{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}} The work was unveiled in November 2012, a mosaic of 700 decorated panels of various patterns inspired by local history.{{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}}{{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}} Poncelet's other large-scale public works include a terrazzo dado for an [Edinburgh International Festival](/source/Edinburgh_International_Festival) building, and decorative vinyl for windows in the heart centre at the [John Radcliffe Hospital](/source/John_Radcliffe_Hospital) in [Headington, Oxford](/source/Headington%2C_Oxford). 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](/source/Middlesbrough_Institute_of_Modern_Art) in early 2024. ==Collections== Her work is included in the collections of the [Victoria and Albert Museum](/source/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum),{{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}} the United Kingdom [Crafts Council](/source/Crafts_Council),{{cite web |title=Maker {{!}} Crafts Council CollectionsOnline |url=https://collections.craftscouncil.org.uk/makers/maker?id=AUTH823 |website=collections.craftscouncil.org.uk}} the [Tate Museum](/source/Tate_Museum),{{cite web |title=Jacqui Poncelet born 1947 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jacqui-poncelet-8472 |website=Tate}} the [Art Institute of Chicago](/source/Art_Institute_of_Chicago),{{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}} the [Museum of Modern Art, New York](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art%2C_New_York),{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Poncelet {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/4683 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}} the [Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam](/source/Stedelijk_Museum_Amsterdam), and the [British Council](/source/British_Council).{{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}} ==Personal life== Poncelet was previously married to the sculptor [Richard Deacon](/source/Richard_Deacon_(sculptor)).{{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}} As of 2024, she divides her time between homes in London and South Wales, with her partner Anthony Stokes. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Poncelet, Jacqui }} Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Belgian painters Category:20th-century Belgian sculptors Category:20th-century Belgian women painters Category:20th-century Belgian women sculptors Category:20th-century ceramists Category:21st-century Belgian painters Category:21st-century Belgian sculptors Category:21st-century Belgian women painters Category:21st-century Belgian women sculptors Category:21st-century ceramists Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art Category:Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton Category:Artists from Liège Category:Belgian collage artists Category:Belgian women ceramists Category:Belgian ceramists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jacqui Poncelet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Poncelet) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Poncelet?action=history)). 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