Phoebe Cummings |
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Phoebe Cummings was born in the U.K in 1981. She studied Three-Dimensional Crafts at the University of Brighton before completing an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work explores connections between interior environments and landscape, considering the psychological spaces of objects and place. Process and material remain of particular significance, working predominantly with clay. Often pieces are constructed directly on site, intended as temporary interventions. The work may come to exist only as a photograph or memory. |
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Untitled Located near a large pile of wood and abandoned chair, the site chosen by Phoebe Cummings at I-Park gives the sense of a collapsed building. There is an ambiguity in the structure created, suggesting both carpet-like remains of an interior environment or a growth engulfing the area as it returns to nature. Similarly, the color of the ceramic pieces has connotations of both domestic space as well as echoing the natural growth of lichen in the surrounding area. Each of the ceramic loops was hand rolled and fired in the studio at I-Park, before being pieced together on site. The surface will change in colour over time with the effects of weather and natural growth on the piece. |
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