Statement
My personal passion is for pattern and colour. I do not have a minimalist aesthetic. I believe that complexity can enrich our lives but should not overwhelm us. Each element within a composition should add to the overall experience.
In recent years collaboration has become an important part of my work, whether I’m exhibiting as an artist, curating, or working with architects. I believe that we can maximise both our individual potential and that of the project through teamwork. My background in ceramics has left me with a strong interest in function, and my approach to public projects satisfies this side of my creativity. The function could be aesthetic or practical, but one of the great pleasures of working as a team is the feeling that a brief has been understood and answered creatively.
Education
1969-1972
Royal College of Art, MA Ceramics
1965-1969
Wolverhampton College of Art, BA Ceramics
External Links
Folkestone Triennial 2021 SPECIAL, The Folkestone Podcast
Listen in at Roche Court: Jacqueline Poncelet in conversation with David Ward
Interview for Art360 Foundation, 2016
Slade Contemporary Art Lecture Series 2014-15: Jacqueline Poncelet
Made in Britain: Jacqueline Poncelet, Tate, 2013
Interview with Jacqueline Poncelet, Art on the Underground, 2013
Teaching
2002- 2006
External Assessor, MA Sculpture Department, Slade School, London
Part-time Lecturer
1995-2001
Goldsmiths College, Textile Department, London
1982- 2006
Camberwell College of Arts. University of the Arts, London
1977-82
West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey
1972-1977
Portsmouth Polytechnic
Board Member
2015-
Art on the Underground, London
2001-2006
South London Gallery, Camberwell, London.
2003-4
Artes Mundi Prize, Wales
Guest Lecturer
2005
University of Brighton, 3D design and Materials Practice, Brighton
2004-2007
Royal College of Art London
2000
University of East London. Department of Education and Community Studies. Child Development Unit 1. Introduction to course.
1995
The Art Incentive Prize Foundation, Amstelveen. Master class and juror.
1995-1997
Sandburg Institute, Reitveld Academy, Netherlands
1986
Kent State University, USA
1985
Banff Canada
1984
Groningen, Netherlands
1982
Heusden, Netherlands
1975
Crafts Council Lecture Tour USA
Awards
2011
Welsh Artist of the Year, Drawing Award
1997
One month research fellowship, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
1983
British Council exhibition and travel grant, Japan
1978-9
British Council Bicentennial Arts Fellowship, USA
Solo Exhibitions
(exhibition catalogues indicated by *, e-catalogue indicated by **)
2024
‘In the Making’, Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Freelands Award*
2020
‘Now and Then’, NewArtCentre, Roche Court, Wiltshire (e-catalogue here)
2017
‘Island Life’, Hull City of Culture
2006
‘Watching Trees Lounge’, Swansea Museum and Art Gallery, Wales
2003
‘every which way’, M2 Gallery, Peckham, London
1996
‘Blue and Green Should Never be Seen’, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1995
‘The Decorative Sublime’, The Museum of Modern Art Oxford*
1994
‘Carpet’, The Spotlight Series, Royal Festival Hall, London*
1990
Leonard Street, London
1989
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
1988
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Riverside Studios, London*
1986
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Bing and Grondahl, Copenhagen, Denmark
1985
The New Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London *
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales*
Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1984
Miharudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Craft Shop, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1981
Crafts Council Gallery, London*
1979
Hadler Rodriguez Gallery, New York, USA
1977
British Craft Council Gallery, London
1975
Sutton College of Liberal Arts, Sutton, Surrey
Group Exhibitions (catalogues indicated by *)
2020
‘COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects’, Ting-Ying Gallery
2019
‘Rear Window’, Masons Yard, London.A four-part exhibition partnership with Taste Contemporary, Geneva_Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin_Ting-Ying, Hong Kong
‘COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects’, Ting-Ying Gallery
‘The Size of Thoughts’, White Conduit Projects. London
2018
M²@15. APT Gallery, London*
2017
‘Things of Beauty Growing’, Yale Centre for British Art. USA
2016
‘Out There’, Historic England
2015
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. ‘Between Us’ wallpaper by invitation from Michael Craig Martin
‘Many a Slip’, Marsden Woo Gallery London
‘Bryn Ogwr’, Jacqueline Poncelet and Anthony Stokes, Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog, Wales
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room London
2014
‘Bryn Ogwr’, Jacqueline Poncelet and Anthony Stokes, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
Carol McNicoll and Jacqueline Poncelet, Marsden Woo Gallery London
2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition by invitation from architect Chris Wilkinson
2011
‘Ideal Home’, Jacqueline Poncelet, Carol McNicoll, Sam Scott, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
2009
‘Between Metaphor and Object’. IMMA Dublin
‘Super Abundant’, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate*
2008
‘Well Meaning Cultural Commodities’, Barrett Marsden Gallery
‘Golden Rain’, A project for ‘On the Edge’ at the Eigeroya lighthouse in Egersund By Michael Petry*
2005
‘Paradise Lost’, Carol NcNicoll and Jacqueline Poncelet, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
2004
‘Small is Beautiful’, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
2003
‘Domestic Landscape’, Private gallery, Bath
‘Independence Show’, South London Art Gallery, Camberwell, London
‘30/30 Vision’, Crafts Council Gallery, London + touring
2000
‘Three Decades’, Crafts Council Touring exhibition
1999
‘Fabrication’, Norwich Gallery*
‘a stranger here myself’, Laura Ford and Jacqueline Poncelet*, Camden Arts Centre, London, Arnolfini, Bristol and Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
‘Bankside Browser’, Tate Modern, London
Home, private gallery, London
‘Off the wall and on the floor’, London Institute Gallery, London*
1997
‘Material Culture’, Hayward Gallery, London
1996
‘Private View’, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham
‘Take it from here’, CAS, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery
‘Permission to Speak’, Arts Council of Great Britain, Worcester, Derby and Peterborough
‘Sad’, Gasworks, London
1995
British Art of the 80’s + 90’s, Weltkunst Collection, The Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin*
1994-5
‘Dad’, Gasworks, London and Winchester College of Art.
1993
‘Homage’, Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1993-1995
‘The Raw and the Cooked’*, The Barbican Gallery, London
The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
The Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Musee d’Contemporain de Dunkerque, France
1993
‘Het Interieur’, Van Crimpen/Art and Project, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992
‘Somatic States’, The Quicksilver Place Gallery, London and The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich*
1991
‘The Abstract Vessel’, Cardiff, Wales*
1986
Blossom Festival School Art Project, School of Art, Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
Aperto, Venice Biennale.
1985
Max Protetch, New York USA
1984
‘Fast Forward’, ICA, London*
British Ceramics, Dienst Beeldende Kunst, Netherlands
1983
Jacqui Poncelet and Alison Britton, Westminster Gallery, Boston, USA
Britska Keramika, Czechoslovakia*
1982
Jacqui Poncelet and Alison Britton
Gallery Het Kapelhuis, Netherlands
Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany
Amalgam Gallery, London
1981
British Ceramics, Scharpoord, Knokke Heist, Belgium*
1980
British 20th Century Ceramics, Christopher Wood Gallery, London*
Ceramics, Poa Siu Loong Gallery, Hong Kong
British Ceramics Today, Octagon Centre for the Arts, Iowa, USA*
Jacqui Poncelet and Alison Britton, Gallery het Kapelhuis +
Cruit Huis Den Bosch, Netherlands
1979
‘Image and Idea’ British Council tour, Australia and New Zealand*
1978
British Ceramics, Gemeentelijk Museum, Princesshof, Netherlands
Figur and Gefass, Hessische Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany*
1977
British Potters 77, Graham Gallery, New York, USA*
Ceramics and textiles, British Council at Mehre Shah Gallery, Teheran, Iran*
1976
Seven in 76, Portsmouth City Museum and Arts Centre, Portsmouth*
Six Studio Potters, V+A, London*
24 British Potters, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University,
Philadelphia, USA*
1975
Liberty’s Centenary Exhibition, V+A, London
1974
Ceramic Forms, Craft Advisory Committee (British Council Tour: Australia,
Switzerland, Poland, Sweden and Norway)*
2nd Chinichi International of Ceramics, Nagoya, Japan
‘Everyman a Patron’, Crafts Council Advisory Committee, London*
‘Outside Tradition’, Ulster Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland*
32 Concorsa Internazionale, Faenza, Italy
1973
Objects, Southampton Art Gallery, Gallery
Glenys Barton and Jacqui Poncelet, Crafts Advisory Committee, London
Sea of Japan, Kanazawa-shi, Japan
‘Europalia’, British Council, Brussels, Belgium
‘The Craftman’s Art’, Crafts Advisory Committee, V+A, London*
1972
International Ceramics, V+A, London
Public Collections
Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales
Arts Council of Great Britain
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, England
Boymans van Beuningen Museum. Rotterdam, Netherlands
British Council
British Museum, London, England
Chinichi Collection of Ceramics, Nagoya, Japan
Cleveland Museum and Art Gallery, England
Contemporary Arts Society, London, England
Kruithuis , Collection now held by the Design Museum Den Bosch, Netherlands, Den Bosch, Netherlands
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Glasgow City Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland
The Hepworth, Wakefield
Leicestershire City Museum and Gallery, England
Manchester City Art Gallery, England
MIMA, Middlesborough
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerde, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum of Victoria, Australia
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Paisley Museum, Scotland
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Reading Museum and Art Gallery, England
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, England
Tate Gallery, London, England
Vestlandstre Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Weltkunst Foundation
Western Australian Art Gallery, Australia
Bibliography
2020
‘Now and Then’, Jacqueline Poncelet, New Art Centre, Roche Court, e-catalogue, 2020
‘British Art of the Long 1980s: Diverse Practices, Exhibitions and Infrastructures’, Imogen Racz, Bloomsbury
2019
‘Profile: Artistic Expression’ Ceramic Review Magazine, Emma Crichton-Miller, November/ December, Issue 300.
2018
M²@15
2017
‘Things of Beauty Growing’ Yale University Press.
2011
Michael Petry. The Art of Not Making.
2008
‘Golden Rain’ A project for “On the Edge” at the Eigeroya lighthouse
in Egersund By Michael Petry
2006
Crafts Magazine no.199 March/April 2006 review p.60/61
Building Design. January 13th 2006. ‘Art On It’s Sleeve’ by E. Knutt,
Didcot project
2005
Re Views, Black Dog Publishing
The Spectator. December 2005. Review by Tanya Harrod ‘Paradise Lost’
Re Views Artists and Public Spaces, Black Dog Publishing
Interview by Penelope Curtis ‘Attending to the Barely Made’
2000
Henry Moore Institute, ‘Essays on Sculpture 29’
British Art Show 5, Catalogue
Anatol Orient ‘The Pleasure of Stuff’. Ceramic Review No. 185
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Allan Chasanoff Collection. Charlotte. N.C., USA
1999
Tanya Harrod. The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, 1999
1995
Philip Sanderson. Art Monthly no. 190 pg31-33, October 1995
Garth Clark. The Potter’s Art. Phaidon Press, London
1992
Women’s Art no.49, London
1990
Oliver Watson. British Studio Pottery. Phaidon Press, London
Artscribe no.7 London
Ceramic Review no.22, London
1980
H. Storr-Britz. Contemporary International Ceramics, Dumont, Germany
Crafts Magazine nos. 2, 3, 4, 10, 19, London
Decorative Art in Modern Interiors. Editor Maria Schofield,
Studio Vista, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980
Peter Lane. Studio Pottery, Pitman House, 1980
1975
Edward Lucy-Smith. World of the Maker, Paddington, UK.
1974
Eileen Lewenstein and Emmanuel Cooper. New Ceramics, Studio Vista
David Hamilton. Pottery and Ceramics. Thames and Hudson, London
Articles Written
2024
‘Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making,’ Veronica Simpson, Studio International (Read here)
‘The art world were, “Don’t show me that, I’ll vomit”: Jacqueline Poncelet on her controversial carpets,’ Mark Brown, The Guardian (Read here)
2021
‘Folkestone Triennial 2021: six highlights from female artists’, Ella Alexander, Harper’s Bazaar (Read here)
‘Nearly Two Dozen Colorful Artworks Have Enlivened a Small English Town for the 2021 Folkestone Triennial’ Artnet News (Read here)
‘Folkestone Triennial is reviving the former resort town, but this year’s edition is hit and miss’, Alastair Smart, The Telegraph (Read here)
2020
‘Edmund de Waal and Jacqueline Poncelet — peace and disquiet’, Melanie Gerlis, The Financial Times
‘Jacqueline Poncelet – interview: Uncertainty is all right; it gives us an opportunity to look again and think again’, Veronica Simpson, studio international (Read here)
‘New Art Centre: Edmund de Waal / Jacqueline Poncelet’ Emma Crichton-Miller, The Design Edit (Read here)
‘Edmund De Waal/Jacqueline Poncelet, New Art Centre, Salisbury, review: contradictions and creepiness’, Lucy Davies, The Telegraph (Read here)
‘Jacqueline Poncelet’s Multiplicities’, Paul Carey-Kent, FAD Magazine (Read here)
2005
‘A new arts centre for Didcot’ Re Views, Black Dog Publishing
2001
Catalogue essay Jerwood Applied Arts Prize Ceramics ‘Made for Whom? Made for What? Made for Where?’
Ceramic Review
‘Familiarity and the face’ Glenys Barton, Ceramic review no.167 London
‘Beauty and the Beholder’ Babs Haenen, Ceramic review no.160 London
Public Art
2019-
The John Radcliffe Hospital relatives’ rooms and room for the deceased
Cleethorpes North Promenade Design for the shutters of Brown’s Café
2016-2019
The Marq, Rolfe Judd Architects, Crown Estate Development
Bronze gate, carved and gilded stone and a terrazzo panel
2012-2016
‘Settle’, Vesta development Cambridge
Four panels in glazed brick integrated into the façade of the buildings.
Commissioned by Hill for the CB1 Public Art Programme.
2014
South Meade Hospital, medical day garden, perforated screens.
‘Llarwydden’ and ‘Made in Britain’, a weaving project with Melin Tregwynt for Tate
Enterprises
‘Rewrap’ temporary work for St James’ Tube Station, Art on the Underground
‘Rewrap’ temporary work for the entrance to Edgware Road Tube Station, Art on the Underground
2013
‘Rewrap’ temporary work for the ticket hall at Piccadilly Station, Art on the Underground
2011-
Lead Artist, Accident and Emergency John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford.
2009-2012
‘Wrapper’ Griffith House BSP cladding. Edgware Road (circle line) commissioned by Art on the Underground
2006-2010
Queen Mary University of London. Humanities Building. Wilkinson Eyre Architects. Art Work for façade of building
2008-2009
John Radcliffe Hospital. Designs for film to windows in cardiac wing.
2005-2008
‘only here, only now’ Leicester, New Shires High Cross Quarter artist’s commission. Developer by Hammerson. 2006-2008.
Flitch Green Primary School, Little Dunmow Essex. Artist working with architect NPS designing and making work to be incorporated in the building. 2006-2008
Sunshine House. Child Development Unit, Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital Southwark. Artist working with architects AHMM, designing and making work to be incorporated in the building. Lift project. 2006-2007.
The Parish Church of St. Mary, Burley in Wharfedale. Consultant artist working with Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects. Acoustic panels completed 2007.
Consultant artist for Leigh Park Crafts Initiative, Hampshire working with John Alexander Architects. Designs for 7 pairs of metal security gates for studios. 2005-2006.
Bonn Square Oxford consultant artist working with Graeme Massie Architects. 2005-2008.
2002-2005
Ipswich Crown Court. Hand cut rubber panels hanging in the windows of the public space Paul Morton. Austin, Smith, Lord Architects. 2003-2004
Holyrood House. Queen’s Graphics Gallery. Sand blasted glass screen between gallery and shop. Benjamin Tindall Architects. Designed 2002.
1999-2001
Didcot Arts Centre working with Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects. Artist
on the design team 2001- 2008.
Ocean Music Trust. Workshops with the Kurdish community. Commission for the design and production of acoustic panels. Paul Jenkins Architect/Peter Mance, Mance Design and Architecture. 1999-2001.
The Hub. Sandblasted glass doors. Edinburgh Festival building. Benjamin Tindall Architects 2000.
The Hub. Terrazzo dado for the Edinburgh Festival building. Benjamin Tindall Architects. 1999.
Unrealised Public Art Projects
2011
Lead Artist Accident and Emergency John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford.
2007-2008
Dover Priory Station Forecourt. Proposal for sculptures and working with design team on the redesign of the forecourt to the station.
2005
Two designs for rubber panels produced by ‘Outgang’ a Scottish- based product design and development company founded in 2005.
2001
A13 Artscape. Pedestrian subway working with architect Tom de Paor. Design stage 2001
Banbury Museum. Concept design for work suspended under bridge over canal. Cancelled due to over spend on building. 2001-2003.
2000
Albert Hall proposal for mosaic. One of 3 short listed. 2000
Special Projects
2014
‘Craft Lives’ British Library
2005
Shaping Places, Bracknell. Kent Architecture Initiative working with Architect Neil Armitage, Brakenhale School and Fox Hill Primary School.
Art Changes Bracknell part of a team of artists working in Bracknell prior to the redevelopment of the town centre. Website: artchangesbracknell.co.uk
1993
Cirva, Marseille, France. Centre for research in glass. Initiated project into using patterned and plain glass to create high relief surfaces.
1983
‘Other Anatomies’ Crondene Press edition of ‘pop-up’ books.
1982
Bing and Grondahl Porcelain Factory, Copenhagen, Table pieces. 1982-5.
1976
Trails of special finishes to production ware 1976-1978
Exhibitions Curated
2020
‘The Other Side of the Coin’ New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire**
2006
‘Better Than a Bargain’ co-curated with Carol McNicoll, Christmas exhibition for The City Gallery, Leicester.
‘who let the donkey in? curated for The potteries Museum and Art Gallery Stoke-on- Trent. October – December 2006.
2002
‘Pattern Crazy’ Crafts Council. Co-curator with Carol McNicoll July-September 2002*
2000
‘The British Art Show’ one of three curators. Pippa Coles, Mathew Higgs and Jacqueline Poncelet.
1997
‘The Barely Made’ exhibition curated for the Norwich Gallery.