Pauline Cummins was born in Dublin in 1949. She studied painting and ceramics at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) from 1966 to 1970. From 1974 to 1975 she was the director of an aid programme in Turkana, Kenya, the Craft Workshop teaching marketing and craft design. In 1975 she co-founded the ceramic studio, the Ashford Pottery in County Wicklow. She moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979, where she focused on painting. Returning to Ireland, her work moved towards video and performance. In 2002 she completed an MA at NCAD.[1] Cummins was a lecturer at the NCAD in the department of sculpture until 2014.[2]
In September 2010, she performed CHAOS at the Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada. In 2016 she was one of the performers selected for Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol. Her works are held in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art[4] and the Douglas Hyde Gallery.[5] She has won The George Campbell Painting Award in 1986, Sir Mark Turner Memorial Scholarship in 1992, Culture Ireland Award in 2010,[1] and the Film and Video Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 1990 and 1994.[6]
References
^ abcAntosik-Parsons, Kate (2015). "Biographical Entry: Pauline Cummins". In Byrne, Máire; Larkin, Rita (eds.). Art and Architecture in Ireland: Sculpture Volume III (1600-2000). Dublin and New Haven: Royal Irish Academy and Yale University Press. pp. 90–91.