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Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo. 1950 (age 73–74) Nairobi, Kenya. Nationality. British. Known for. Studio pottery. Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE (born 1950) is a Kenyan -born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey. [1] Her work is in the collections of notable museums including the Art Institute of Chicago ...
1950. Magdalene Odundo DBE is a contemporary potter whose handmade, meticulously burnished vessels evoke the human form and draw upon a variety of artistic traditions. Born in Kenya, where she was initially trained as a graphic artist, Odundo began experimenting with clay and other materials after moving to London at age 21.
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Oct 4, 2023 · Magdalene A. N. Odundo is a ceramic artist born in Kenya in 1950 but residing in Britain since 1971. Much has been made of her biography and the complexities of her education, training, and rigorous practice of creating beautiful vessels that speak to multiple associations and inspirations across the history of art and their resonances with the human form, especially the bodies of women.
2019 Magdalene Odundo - The Journey of Things Sainsbury Centre, Norwich. August 3 - December 5, 2019 2019 Magdalene Odundo - The Journey of Things Hepworth Wakefield Museum. 15 February - 2 June 2019 2017 Universal and Sublime: The Vessels of Magdalene Odundo, High Museum of Art, Atlanta. 24 June – 15 October 2017. 2016 Transition II Touring to:
Mar 28, 2022 · Magdalene Odundo: I feel as if 40 years have paid off! I am absolutely delighted that through my work I’ve been able to bridge certain schisms within the cultural art tradition. And also being ...
Magdalene Odundo (Nairobi, Kenya, 1950 – ), Untitled, 2009. 45 cm, red clay, multi-fired. Museum purchase through the Richard M. and Rosann Gelvin Noel Krannert Art Museum Fund 2010-3-1. She returned to Africa in 1974-1975, visiting Nigeria and then Kenya, to study the ways women make pottery using traditions of hand-building and firing that ...
Oct 28, 2017 · Abstract. Magdalene Odundo’s career and life trajectories contain several seemingly paradoxical elements that she has been able to integrate skillfully into strengths; these include her Kenyan heritage, art education in ceramics within the context of British studio pottery, and international exhibition history in both fine art and design ...
