Magdalene odundo biography template
Magdalene odundo ceramics.
Magdalene odundo biography template
Ben Uri Research Unit
Born:1950 Nairobi, Kenya
Year of Migration to the UK:1971
Other name/s: Anyango Namakhiya , Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo, Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE
Biography
Ceramicist Magdalene Odundo was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1950, receiving her early education in both India and Kenya.
She studied Graphics and Commercial Art at the Kabete National Polytechnic in Kenya before moving to England in 1971 to continue her education, gaining her BA in Ceramics with Printmaking and Photography from West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham (1973-76).
Between 1974 and 1975 she travelled to Nigeria, where she worked at the Pottery Training Centre in Abuja, and Kenya, where she learnt the Gbari way of handling clay, a traditional hand-built pottery technique. She also visited San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico to observe the creation of black-burnished pottery.
She subsequently taught for three years at the Commonwealth Institute in London (1976–7