Magdalene Odundo

**Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo** (born 1950) be Kenyan-born British studio potter, wey now dey live insyd Farnham, Surrey. Ein work dey insyd de collections of notable museums wey dey include de Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, den de National Museum of African Art.

Na she be Chancellor of de University for the Creative Arts since 2018.

## Early life den education
Na dem born Magdalene Odundo insyd Nairobi, Kenya, wey she receive ein early education insyd both India den Kenya. She attend de Kabete National Polytechnic insyd Kenya make she study Graphics den Commercial Art wey she later move to England insyd 1971 make she follow ein chosen vocation insyd Graphic Design. After training insyd Farnham, Surrey, she plete ein qualifications insyd foundation art den graphics at de Cambridge School of Art, wer na she begin to specialise insyd ceramics.
## Recognition den honours
Na dem award Odundo de African Art Recognition Award by Detroit Institute of Arts insyd 2008, den de African Heritage Outstanding Achievement insyd de Arts award insyd 2012, togeda plus honorary doctorates from de University of Florida (2014) den University of the Arts London (2016). Na dem appoint am Officer of de Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to art insyd de 2008 Birthday Honours den Dame Commander of de Order of the British Empire (DBE) insyd de 2020 New Year Honours for services to art den arts education.

Na dem organize Odundo as a significant player insyd contemporary ceramics, wey dey make ein name a large contributor to African Art insyd de US during de 1990s. As dem observe by Augustus Casely-Hayford, "[She draws] on something of the wisdom and experience of the Leach, or a line borrowed from ancient European antiquity, to create a trans-global, trans-temporal visual system of her own; modern, yet simultaneously old, African yet resolutely European..."

Insyd 2017 na dem announce say Odundo go take up de role of Chancellor of de University for the Creative Arts from June 2018.

Odundo, wey na insyd 2008 dem appoint am an Officer of de Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art, na dem make am a Dame (DBE) insyd de Queen ein 2020 New Year's Honours.

Insyd 2022 she be a world famous ceramic artist den Chancellor of de University of the Creative Arts. Insyd 2008 she receive de African Art Recognition Award from de Detroit Art Institute den insyd 2012 de African Heritage 40 Years Anniversary Award. Insyd 2019 she receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at de International Ceramics Festival wey insyd 2020 na dem appoint am DBE insyd de Queen ein New Year’s Honours list for Services to de Arts den Arts Education. Insyd 2022 na dem award am an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by Anglia Ruskin University.
## References


## External links
Wikimedia Commons get media wey relate to ******.

* Magdalene Odundo at Anthony Slayter-Ralph fine art

* Berns, Marla C., *Ceramic Gestures, New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo*, Santa Barbara: University Art Museum, University of California, 1995.
* Bonacina, Andrew, *Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things*, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2019.
* Jegede, Dele, *Contemporary African Art, Five Artists, Diverse Trends*, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000.
* Slayter-Ralph, Anthony, *Magdalene Odundo*, London: Lund Humphries, 2004.