Beyond Vessels: Magdalene Odundo & Edmund de Waal

16 Nov 2022 7-8.30pm

Untitled (Vessel), 1987. Credit: @Magdalene A. N. Odundo. Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery.

Overview

Join artists Magdalene Odundo and Edmund de Waal, both of whom appear in Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, as they discuss clay’s intricacies as a medium.
 
In particular, they look at how a quintessential form of ceramics, the vessel, is morphed and reimagined as an abstraction, an architecture or even a body.

This discussion is chaired by curator and writer Jenni Lomax.

Magdalene Odundo is a sculptor and ceramicist internationally renowned for her distinctive burnished, hand-built vessels. Born in Kenya and educated in India, Kenya and at the Royal College of Art in the UK, Odundo’s works are informed by art and craft traditions from around the world throughout history.

Edmund de Waal is an artist who writes. Both his artistic and written practice have broken new ground through their critical engagement with the history and potential of ceramics, as well as with architecture, music, dance and poetry.

Jenni Lomax is a curator and writer who, as Director of Camden Art Centre between 1990 and 2017, established a pioneering, artist-centred programme of influential exhibitions, residencies and education activities, including an annual ceramics fellowship for artists working adventurously with clay.

A Matter of Life and Death, an exhibition of works in clay, was curated by Lomax for Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples in 2022.

Wed 16 Nov, 7pm
Level 5 Function Room, Green Side, Royal Festival Hall
 
£5

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