We are delighted to share the news that the MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) has acquired 12 works by our gallery artist Jacqueline Poncelet.
In 2024, MIMA honoured Poncelet with a solo exhibition surveying 50 years of her work. That exhibition and recent acquisition have been made possible through the support of the Feelands Award, a partnership between Freelands Foundation and Art Fund that offers grants for museums to acquire contemporary art and increase public access to work by women artists in the UK. Spanning 30 years of her practice, the 12 watercolours, which the museum has now acquired, will build on Poncelet’s legacy and ensure her work will be seen in Middlesbrough for generations to come.
‘My experience of the everyday feeds my artistic life. It was always the case and the longer I live the more interesting I find its complexity. I enjoy adding to that complexity through my work, drawing people’s attention to the things around them…I take something familiar or seemingly ordinary and through repetition give it importance.’ Jacqueline Poncelet, 2025
Pictured: Bryn (06), 2011, Watercolour on paper