About
Phoebe Collings-James is a Jamaican British artist whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, ceramics, sound and video, with a recent focus on ceramics. Having studied fine art in London, they were introduced to ceramics in 2014 during artist residency with Nuove in Italy. In 2019 Collings-James moved from Brooklyn, USA to East London, UK, to continue their ceramics journey in the neighbourhood they grew up in. In autumn 2021, as the Freelands Ceramic Fellow they exhibited their first institutional solo show of ceramic works at Camden Arts Centre, London. In 2021 Collings-James launched Mudbelly Teaches, a free ceramics course for Black people in London, taught by Black ceramicists and artists. Recent solo exhibitions include Albuquerque Foundation, Portugal (opens February 2026); KINDL, Berlin, Germany (2025); SculptureCenter, New York, US (2024); Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2023) and Camden Arts Centre (2021). Their work is in the collection of York Art Gallery, Kadist Foundation, Arts Council England and Southampton City Art Gallery, among other places.
