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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, The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Museum of African Art. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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 · 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.
BIOGRAPHY. Magdalene Odundo received an OBE from the Queen for her contribution to Art and Education in 2008. She is a graduate of West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham (University for the Creative Arts) and the Royal College of Art, London. Born and raised in Kenya, Magdalene Odundo began her career at an advertising agency in Nairobi ...
Feb 4, 2019 · Magdalene Odundo travelled to London from her native Kenya when she was 21 in search of a vocation. She enrolled at art college in Cambridge, where she began to study graphic design and...
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Biography Ceramist. Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1950, Odundo trained in graphics in Nairobi and came to the UK in 1971 to continue graphic studies at Cambridge College of Art (1971-73), where her interest in ceramics began. Took a ceramics degree at West Surrey College of Art, Farnham (1973-76).
Artists. Magdalene Odundo (1950 – ) Magdalene Odundo was born in Nairobi in 1950. After education in Kenya and India she studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, gaining a first class degree in Ceramics with Printmaking and Photography in 1976.
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