THE ARTIST

Jacqueline de la Fuente is a British-Filipino artist working with papier-mâché clay to create sculptural objects and wall-based works.

With a background in textile design for interiors, her practice is rooted in material exploration and a hands-on approach to making. Her work moves between art and object, combining an intuitive process with an evolving interest in structure, form and surface.

PRACTICE

Jacqueline’s work explores the tension between softness and structure. Using a self-made papier-mâché clay, she constructs forms through layering, folding and joining rather than modelling from a single mass.

Edges are cut, compressed and eroded, creating irregular rhythms and forms that feel both familiar and unsettled. Her pieces often sit in a state of in-betweenness—balanced between control and collapse, object and sculpture.

There is a quiet thread of personal experience within the work, reflecting a sense of existing between cultures. Rather than direct representation, this is expressed through form: shapes that suggest recognition but resist clear definition.

MATERIAL

Working with recycled paper transformed into clay, Jacqueline pushes a traditionally humble material beyond its expected use. Each piece is built slowly in stages, retaining the trace of its making through surface, form and imperfection.

Her practice continues to explore how material behaviour can shape form—moving between softness and structure, control and unpredictability.

ARTWORKS AND PRINTS

Jacqueline's artworks and prints are an extension of her vases and sculptures where brushstrokes and lines flow organically. These however are ever changing by looking at nature as well as her surroundings and everyday living as a source of inspiration.