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Phoebe Cummings works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and installations that emphasise materiality, fragility, time, creation and decay. Cummings' impressive interventions are often constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. Cummings questions what we will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism. Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology or fragile relics of an almost forgotten past...
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Phoebe Cummings is a British artist born in Walsall, England in 1981 and currently resides in Stafford. Cummings studied ceramics at Brighton University in 2002 before completing an MA in ceramics and 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 six month residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2010. In 2017 she won first place at the inaugural Woman’s Hour Craft Prize with work exhibited at the V&A Museum, before touring to venues around the UK. Cummings was selected as the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011 and awarded a ceramics fellowship at London’s Camden Arts Centre (2012–13). ‘Supernatural’ was her first solo exhibition at Anima-Mundi. In addition, Cummings’ work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including '60|40 Starting Point Series’ at Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 'Formed Thoughts' at Jerwood Space, London; and 'Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design' at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2013, she had a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu and The Newlyn Art Gallery.
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Phoebe Cummings will be included in 'A Matter of Life and Death’, an international group exhibition of works in clay, curated by Jenni Lomax at Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples…
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donations to Funding Neuro in Memory of Little Daisy Brooks and Ethan Cass
The donation has been made in the loving and lasting memory of Daisy Brooks from Bures, Essex and Ethan Cass from Pendeen in Cornwall who tragically lost their lives to DIPG…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
The review titled ‘Clay, staged to decay — a memento mori — in Phoebe Cummings’ ‘Cut’ at A-B Projects’ states that “The show is grounded in the elements: earth, air, fire and water. Beyond a deep sensory connection, the exhibition elicits the transcendent…
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Phoebe Cummings solo exhibition ‘This Was Now’ is on at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 7th March until 27th September 2020. Cummings uses the exhibition to explore ceramics potential as a time-based medium and seeks to understand the multiple ways we might record transient sculpture…
A major site specific work by Phoebe Cummings is included in ‘Beyond the Vessel’ curated by Catherine Milner and Karoly Aliotti at Vehbi Koç Foundation, Mesher Gallery, Instanbul during the Instanbul Biennale.
Phoebe Cummings ‘An Ugly Aside’ is included in a ‘Tea Journey: from monuments to the table’ at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park from 6th July until 22 September 2019
Phoebe Cummings features in this months edition of House & Garden Magazine
The BBC broadcast this short film with Phoebe Cummings in celebration of International Womans Day.
Phoebe Cummings has collaborated with fashion brand TOAST to create 'Season'
Phoebe Cummings has been named as the winner of the inaugural £10,000 Woman's Hour Craft Prize and will be exhibited at the V&A.
Phoebe Cummings' hauntingly delicate ‘Supernatural' and Paul Benney’s incandescent 'Speaking in Tongues - Editions' opened last Friday