Michael Tummings

Michael Tummings, born in London in 1966 to Jamaican parents, is best known as a photographic artist. His photographic work explores questions of origin, cultural identity and social belonging. Since 2008, he has also focused extensively on the subject of hunting, examining the relationship between humans, nature and social traditions. Tummings lives and works in Munich.

For Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg, Michael Tummings translated his photographic visual language into a three-dimensional figurative work for the first time with Huntsman I in 2014. Over the course of more than a year, he studied historical hunting figures from the manufactory’s repertoire and, together with Nymphenburg’s master workshops, developed a contemporary interpretation of the archetypal hunter. The limited edition depicts an aristocratic huntsman in white biscuit porcelain, with clothing and accessories rendered in meticulous detail, from individual buttons and shoelaces to the cord of his hat. The almost photorealistic representation combines Tummings’ photographic eye with Nymphenburg’s historic tradition of hunting figures and a contemporary perspective on the relationship between humans and nature.

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