Phoebe Collings-James, b. 1987, lives and works in London. She works across various mediums including painting, sculpture, sound, and video. Collings-James has released original productions with SERAFINE1369 and Takuroku Records, and has shown work internationally, including shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Arcadia Missa,, London; Palais de Tokyo,  Paris; the Venice Biennale; and ARNDT, Singapore. As the 2021 Freelands Ceramic Fellow she has an upcoming exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, in fall 2021. Collings-James’s Mudbelly ceramics studio began as a personal practice and research outlet, but has since grown to encompass a shop and a teaching facility offering free ceramics courses for Black people in London, taught by Black ceramicists.