Phoebe Cummings

Ephemerality, Recording, and Ceramics as a Time-Based Medium

February 2020

Discussion Guide:

Ephemerality, Recording, Ceramics as a Time-Based Medium

Summary:

Ephemerality, Recording, Ceramics as a Time-Based Medium

About the topic

This conversation focuses upon understanding ceramics as a time-based medium and how ephemeral work operates in relation to museums and collections.

About the Lead Artist

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 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 2012 and a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu 2013. Cummings was awarded the second ceramics fellowship at Camden Arts Centre 2012, was the inaugural winner of the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017, and was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Awards 2018. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Brighton and is Research Associate at the Ceramics Research Centre UK – University of Westminster.