She is his greatest ceramicist hero.
I adore her, he said.
For me, theres something in her work which is so personal, physical.
Courtesy of Loewe
Theres a body aspect to them.
Odundo described her critical aim slightly differently, as she showed the agog audience of actors and artists through.
I wanted a disruptive but comfortable synergy with the life that has been lived in here, she said.
The lavish dinner setting at Houghton Hall, complete with Loewe candlesticks and ceramics by Dame Magdalene Odundo.
I hope things look as if they belong here.
The lavish dinner setting at Houghton Hall, complete with Loewe candlesticks and ceramics by Dame Magdalene Odundo.
Its one of the few narrative pieces Ive made, Odundo says of her collaboration with artisans at Wedgwood.
It combines the history of this house, [and] who owned what during the transatlantic slave trade.
Where we are placed.
How we find ourselves where we are today in terms of the global we.
Odundo also said shed uncovered Cholmondeley relatives among the Delameres, colonial settlers in Kenya.
Odundos 40-year practice in ceramics began when she came from Kenya to study in the UK in 1971.
The admiration is mutual.
And thats important to me, as someone whos distilling movement into a static situation.
Its like having a dancer, a ballerina, an acrobat… and arresting their movement in ceramics.
Its the idea that the work breathes.
