Montse Domínguez i Munllonch
Jul 23, 20191 min
Artistic Mind by Magdalene Odundo.
Space and place have always been very interesting to me,’ explains Odundo. Born in Kenya in 1950, she first moved to the UK aged 21 to attend the Cambridge School of Art, where she began to specialise in ceramic.
A wanderlust and thirst for creative inspiration and technical knowledge saw the young Odundo travel to Nigeria, New Mexico and China, where in each case she absorbed elements of vernacular craftsmanship, which all fed into her visual language and found new form in her large-scale vessels. ‘I am a product of travel, and when you travel you gather a lot of information,’ she reflect
Interview by Tom Morris
Magdalene Odundo shot for the FT by Rick Pushinsky
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