Studio Sessions
Improvisation
with Phoebe Cummings
August 2024
About the Studio Session
We detach, in the practice of improvisation, from the idea of objects as end points; our material investigations pulse in response to space, sound, found materials, actions, and more.
“I see that I’ve never told you how I listen to music-I gently rest my hand on the record player and my hand vibrates, sending waves through my whole body: and so I listen to the electricity of the vibrations, the last substratum of the reality’s realm, and the whole world trembles inside my hands.”
Clarice Lispector – Água Viva
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 artist-residencies, in the UK, USA and Greenland, including six months at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2010 and a Ceramics Fellowship at Camden Art Centre 2012/13. Exhibitions and commissions have included the Museum of Arts & Design, New York; University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu; Jerwood Space, London and Mesher, Istanbul. She was the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award 2011 and the inaugural BBC Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017. Cummings is a Research Associate at the University of Westminster, Ceramics Research Centre - UK and is currently undertaking an Artist Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
@phoebe_cummings
Logistics
This Studio Session took place in August 2024.