Material Fiction
with Phoebe Cummings / July 2022
About the Studio Session
This Studio Session explores connections between writing and clay (and writing in clay, ceramics as language, and ceramics rooted in writing). How can fiction act as a starting point for material exploration? How can we understand ceramics as a form of fiction? We will use practice and discussion to interrogate these questions and to consider fiction as both a means and subject for recording in clay.
About the Lead Artist
Phoebe Cummings (b.1981) 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.