Phoebe Collings-James

Artist working in ceramics, sculpture, sound and video; founder of Mudbelly

Born
1987, London, Greater London

Phoebe Collings-James is a British artist of Jamaican heritage who works in ceramics, sculpture, painting, sound and video. Born in London, they studied fine art at Goldsmiths and took up clay during a residency in Italy in 2014. They founded the Mudbelly studio in East London, which runs free ceramics courses for Black people taught by Black ceramicists. Solo shows include Camden Art Centre in 2021 and SculptureCenter in New York in 2024, and they have held the Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship.

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