From Lucie Rie to Magdalene Odundo: a ‘British’ tradition backed by overseas talent
The ‘British’ studio ceramics movement has long been backed by overseas talent. In addition to Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Ruth Duckworth (nee Windmuller), who fled the Nazis in the 1930s, and Hamada Shoji’s collaboration with Bernard Leach, is the contribution of Kenyan-born Magdalene Odundo (b. 1950).
Resident in England since 1971, this year she was made Chancellor of the University for the Creati…