Magdalene Odundo was born in Nairobi, Kenya and educated in Kenya and India. Coming to Britain in 1971, she studied in Surrey and at the Royal College of Art. She has travelled throughout Europe, America and Africa, drawing on sources as varied as the pottery of New Mexico, the body art of Central Africa, and the forms of early Greek sculpture. Her work is highly regarded and is represented in major national and priv
I was born in the UK but emigrated to Australia in 1988 and studied Ceramics at The National Art School Sydney. I have worked as a potter ever since, building workshops and kilns in Australia and the UK, on my return in 2002. Currently I live and work in a small village on the edge of the Fens, near Cambridge. My work explores the links between ceramics and geology and place, making pieces entirely from geological sa
