I designed - this is where I encountered 'tesselation' - sourced and during the summer learnt to lay a floor of handmade terracotta tiles for an almacen in Riocaliente, Asturias.

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A screening festival celebrating digital filmmaking and Hackney, including world premiere of 24Hour Hackney: A City Symphony

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Its a commonplace that all objects are signs for something else, what's unusual about the surrogate nipple offered to babies is that in English, the word that identifies the object, dummy advertises the fact.

SURROGATE Neil Cummings

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While resident at the Villa Arson, I went to visit an art fair in Monaco.

The most memorable…

Twenty-odd ago, in 1997, I researched and curated a complex multi-site exhibition.....

Collected

26th April - 21 June 1997

Exploring the depth and diversity…

In 1999 I researched and realised a project in Cardiff, for the soon to open Centre for Visual Arts. This is from the accompanying publication

PROMOTION: A new work by Neil…

I wanted to make a table. To see if I could make a table, using standard dimensioned wood bought from a local supplier, simple hand tools and my amateur carpentry skills.

For two weeks, I was a visiting professor at the Villa Arson;

Built on Saint-Barthélémy hill in Nice, with magnificent views over the city and the Bay of Angels, the Villa Arson…

Over the last few years, as part of Critical Practice research cluster at Chelsea College of Arts, we have been hacking the popular board game Monopoly.

Monopoly celebrates some of…

I'm part of an insurgent research group working on the Anthropocene Atlas of London (AAL). Sensing long term, slow, slow compared to human lifespans, climatic changes and understanding how our activities are influencing these changes is complex and challenging.  

As a result, we are…

Curated from the collection, a temporary exhibition #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek pic.…

I was invited by Nadine Monem of common-editions to contribute a text to The Creative Stance. The beautiful publication is an exploration and celebration of creativity, from…

Here is a version of the text I produced about diversity and resilience for The Creative Stance.

Resilience is the capacity of a system – a person, a bacterial culture, a forest, a city or a…

Great company! Thrilled that Speculative Shards is included in the echo-project, https://t.co/RWj6N5P2UH pic.twitter.com/JG1RGu1eHe

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I contributed to What Happens to Us a project curated by…

I'm part of an insurgent research group working on the Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva, and London (TAAG and TAAL). Sensing large scale climatic changes and understanding how human activities are influencing these changes, is complex and challenging. 

As a result, we are working on micro-…

Founded in October 2013, Lafayette Anticipation of the Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette will open its doors in 2018 in the Marais district of Paris. This public interest foundation aims to support contemporary artists, design and fashion, recognising their potential to participate in…

Cloud, cast plaster, London c1986 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek

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In October 1999 PhotoWorks invited myself and Marysia Lewandowska to undertake a residency in the…

In October 1999, as part of the In-Site series of projects, PhotoWorks invited myself and Marysia Lewandowska to undertake a year-long residency in the Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton.

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Documents was a year-long research and exhibitionary project, this is from the accompanying publications......

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In 1997, after several years of research I managed to curate a multi-site exhibition, this account is from a reassembled guide..

26th April - 21 June 1997

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Vase, coiled, handbuilt and biscuit fired, London, c 1985

#FromTheCollection