Jacqueline Mesmaeker is born in 1929 in Uccle, lives and works at Brussel. She studied at the A.R.B.A of Brussel from 1954 to 1957 and at the E.N.S.A of La Cambre Brussel from 1974 to 1981. She got to collaborate with architecture officies (1955-1961). She practiced design and innovation for Into-France and diverse textile factories in Hainaut and Flanders (1962-1966). She taught at the Wavre School of Arts, at the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Mons, at La Cambre, and finally at l’Ecole Supérieure de Recherches Graphiques in Brussel. Moreover, she also was laureate of the EAST awards of Norwich in 1996 and got a Special Mention for Outstanding Achievement in Mixed Media at the New York International Art Competition in 1988. Jacqueline Mesmaeker appears in many public and private collections in Belgium, among which MAC’s Grand Hornu and the MUHKA at Anvers. An exhibition of her work was organised in La Verrière – Fondation Hermès, from February 1st to March 30th 2019, in Brussel.