…Dame Magdalene Odundo, arguably one of the most esteemed living ceramic artists, arrived in Toronto to much fanfare and stratospheric buzz. Her Canadian debut, “Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects,” was on view at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada, October 19, 2023, to April 21, 2024. This was the largest collection of her works ever shown in North America. At 74, Odundo shows no signs of slowing down. The Kenyan-born British artist skyrocketed onto the international scene when work from her graduate exhibition at the Royal College of Art was collected by the British Museum in the mid-1980s..”
Originally published in October 2024 issue of Ceramics Monthly pages 32-37 . http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org . Copyright, The American Ceramic Society. Reprinted with permission.
