- Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media
About me
Phoebe Cummings studied Three-Dimensional Crafts at the University of Brighton, before completing an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has undertaken a number of artist residencies, in the UK, USA and Greenland, including a three-month Arts/Industry residency at the Kohler Co. factory, Wisconsin (2008) and six months as ceramics artist-in-residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2010). Cummings was the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011 and exhibitions have included a commission for the Museum of Arts & Design, New York and a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu. She was awarded the second ceramics fellowship at Camden Arts Centre 2012 and was the winner of the BBC Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017.
Teaching
Jul 2017: Visiting Artist (Ceramics) Harvard University
Jul 2016: CPD clay workshop for teachers, New Art Centre – Roche Court, Hampshire
Oct 2015: Visiting Artist (Ceramics) The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Bornholm
May 2015: Visiting Artist, (Ceramics & Glass) Royal College of Art, London
Mar 2015: Visiting Artist, (3-D / Sculpture) University of Brighton, Brighton
Dec 2014: Clay workshop for Teachers – Art & Design Conference, Entrust, Stafford
Oct 2014: Visiting Artist, (Ceramics) Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
Aug 2014: Clay for Infants/Clay for Juniors workshops, Camden Arts Centre
Jun 2014: CPD Workshop for Teachers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Oct 2013: Visiting Artist – (MA Programme) Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Norway
Apr 2013: Creative Materiality: Aprroaches to working with clay – a symposium organised as part of a ceramic fellowship at Camden Arts Centre, London
Mar 2013: Public Lecture - Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London
Feb 2013: Public Lecture – University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Oct/Nov 2012: Lecture and workshops (Sculpture), Slade School of Fine Art, London
2012-15: Schools Programme Clay Workshops , Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Feb 2012: Visiting Artist – (Ceramics & Glass) Royal College of Art, London
Research
Phoebe Cummings explores ceramics as a time-based medium, working at the intersection of sculpture, craft and performance to present new forms of expression that challenge traditional definitions of ceramics in the context of museums, collections and archives. Research confronts the challenges expanded forms of practice pose to museology and explore multiple methods for documenting, recording, collecting and re-performing ephemeral works in clay.
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Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.