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Phoebe Cummings

Phoebe Cummings was the V&A's ceramics artist-in-residence from June-December 2010. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005 she has undertaken a number of residencies, projects and exhibitions in the UK, USA and Greenland.

Artists in Residence at the V&A

End notes

My residency came to an end on the 22nd December, though the work has remained in the studio. I will be returning to the V&A next week to begin taking apart the installation,...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

An oasis

Birmingham 2009/10 For eight months I livedon a street just off spaghetti junction on the M6. At the bottom of theinterchange was a row of semi-detached houses, which I passed...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Catching Shadows Friday Late – visitors work with clay

In celebration of the fantastic Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photographyexhibition currently on display in the museum, October's Friday Late was themed around Catching...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Overgrown

In 2009 I made several visits to the closed Spode factory site in Stoke-on-Trent. I collected a number of things from the factory floor, including an abandonedcopy of...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Half-way

Before starting the residency I had a clear idea of what I wanted to research in the collection but no fixed vision of how the work I made would look. What has emergedappears as...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

An island aside

Sometimes the studio feels like an island aside of time. Inside this glass case I move around in a landscape of my own construction, distilled from the objects which surround me....

Artists in Residence at the V&A

On fallen ground

Last week I was in Athens. Walking around the city Ithought a lot aboutthe relationships between materials and the ground. Stonesextracted from the landscape, carved and builtinto...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Hidden worlds

Last weekI had the chance to see more of the work that happens behind the scenes at the museum, including the technical workshops and conservation department. I had never thought...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Beginnings

Being based on the sixth floor has the advantage of having to walk through the whole museum as I come and go from the studio. I have already developed favourite routes and an ever...