NEWS
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
The first monograph on the work of our gallery artist Jinya Zhao, Holding Air, Holding Light, is now available at the gallery. This is Taste Contemporary’s first collaboration with Hurtwood Books. Congratulation to all the team at Hurtwood on this beautiful publication. It’s been a pleasure to work with them on this latest title in their Contemporary Artist series.
The book includes 50 full-colour images of Jinya Zhao’s work as well as an essay by writer and curator, Emma Crichton-Millar, and an in conversation piece with Dr Li Xiaoxin, curator of Chinese collections at the V&A, London [the publication is also available in the museum shop].
‘I was first introduced to Jinya’s work by my long-time collaborators, curator Brian Kennedy and designer Peter Ting, both tireless champions of emerging talent. In Jinya, they had found another gem: an artist of rare commitment, vision and drive. From the beginning, her work displayed unrelenting ambition to push beyond boundaries – of form, colour and of perception itself.’ Monique Deul, extract from the Foreword of Holding Air, Holding Light
Congratulations to our gallery artist Jackie Mulder on the publication of her new monograph ‘Thought Trails’.
This is Mulder’s first artist book and will be available in both hardcover and special edition format.
Jackie Mulder has been working on the series ‘Thought Trails’ since 2020. This project blends photography with mixed media art in a way that challenges and expands the boundaries of the medium. In this project, Mulder’s innovative approach to art begins with self-made photographs or a combination of multiple images. She then embarks on a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, resulting in unique, multilayered, and tactile artworks that invite the viewer to reconsider the very nature of photography itself.
She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Danish artist, Susanne Wellm – is now represented by Taste Contemporary.
Since the 1990s, Wellm has explored and merged a number of photographic techniques. Wishing to return to a material-led approach and be reminded of why she was originally drawn to photography, she recently developed a technique that combines photography and weaving. ‘I could see that my background as a textile designer would show me a path back to more craft-oriented, tactile work’ she explains. ‘I started with some small textile and photographic experiments and eventually began weaving my prints.’
Time, memory and the construction of narrative are ever-present themes in her work. Her starting point is a vast archive of found imagery from old family albums, historical movie stills and original captures. Through these, Wellm draws connecting lines between the personal dramas of everyday life and the collective history and trauma of modern Europe.
Susanne Wellm is a graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design and Conservation. She has exhibited widely and is represented in several museum collections.