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'''Mo Abbaro''' (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016),<ref name=Telegraph>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/19/mo-abbaro-ceramicist--obituary/ "Mo Abbaro, ceramicist – obituary"], ''[[Daily telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 19 May 2016.</ref><ref name=CPA /> also known professionally as '''Mo Abdalla''',<ref>Natalie Bennett, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/sudans-ancient-treasures-reveal-the-mighty-culture-that-humbled-the-pharoahs-558246.html "Sudan's ancient treasures reveal the mighty culture that humbled the pharoahs"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 29 August 2004.</ref> was a London-based [[Sudan]]ese ceramicist and potter, who has been described by artist Oliver Bloom as "one of the world's finest ceramicists".<ref>Oliver Bloom, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYM4CMQeJU "The ceramicist"], YouTube.</ref> |
'''Mo Abbaro''' (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016),<ref name=Telegraph>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/19/mo-abbaro-ceramicist--obituary/ "Mo Abbaro, ceramicist – obituary"], ''[[Daily telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 19 May 2016.</ref><ref name=CPA /> also known professionally as '''Mo Abdalla''' or '''Mohammed Abdalla''',<ref>Natalie Bennett, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/sudans-ancient-treasures-reveal-the-mighty-culture-that-humbled-the-pharoahs-558246.html "Sudan's ancient treasures reveal the mighty culture that humbled the pharoahs"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 29 August 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=10179 "Mohammed Abdalla (Biographical details)"], The British Museum.</ref> was a London-based [[Sudan]]ese ceramicist and potter, who has been described by artist Oliver Bloom as "one of the world's finest ceramicists".<ref>Oliver Bloom, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYM4CMQeJU "The ceramicist"], 18 October 2012. YouTube.</ref> |
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==Life and career== |
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He turned to writing in later life, publishing works on ceramic technique, such as ''Modern Ceramics — On the Interplay of Forms and Surfaces'' (2000), as well as on his own family history,<ref name=Telegraph /> including ''The History of the Abbaros of Sudan since the 15th Century'' (1997).<ref name=CPA /> |
He turned to writing in later life, publishing works on ceramic technique, such as ''Modern Ceramics — On the Interplay of Forms and Surfaces'' (2000), as well as on his own family history,<ref name=Telegraph /> including ''The History of the Abbaros of Sudan since the 15th Century'' (1997).<ref name=CPA /> |
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His ceramics are in the collections of |
His ceramics are in the collections of London's [[British Museum]], the [[Institut du Monde Arabe]] in Paris, and the [[Smithsonian Museum]], Washington.<ref name=Smithsonian>[https://africa.si.edu/collections/view/people/asitem/person@ARTIST:A/0/alphaSort-asc?t:state:flow=756803f1-05a8-41ee-829e-8feaa02e0455 "Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla"], Smithsonian National Institute of African Art.</ref> |
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==Family== |
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==References== |
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* Oliver Bloom, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYM4CMQeJU "The ceramicist"], YouTube video, 18 October 2012. |
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Revision as of 18:14, 8 July 2018
Mo Abbaro (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016),[1][2] also known professionally as Mo Abdalla or Mohammed Abdalla,[3][4] was a London-based Sudanese ceramicist and potter, who has been described by artist Oliver Bloom as "one of the world's finest ceramicists".[5]
Life and career
Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro was born in Abu Jibayha, Sudan.[1] He graduated in Fine and Applied Arts from Khartoum Technical Institute in 1958,[1] the following year winning a scholarship to London to study ceramics at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.[1] He did postgraduate studies in industrial pottery design at the North Staffordshire College of Ceramics, after which he had a period of training in chemical analyses of ceramics materials at the North Staffs College of Ceramics Technology.[6][7] He went back to Sudan to teach ceramics for some years, but decided to return to England in 1966[2] to pursue his career in Britain.[7]
He taught ceramics at the Camden Arts Centre for more than two decades,[2] and had many exhibitions in London — including at the Barbican, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Mall Galleries, and the Iraqi Cultural Centre[1] — and elsewhere in the UK, as well as in the US and Sweden.[7] His studio and showroom were in King Henry’s Road, close to Primrose Hill.[7]
He turned to writing in later life, publishing works on ceramic technique, such as Modern Ceramics — On the Interplay of Forms and Surfaces (2000), as well as on his own family history,[1] including The History of the Abbaros of Sudan since the 15th Century (1997).[2]
His ceramics are in the collections of London's British Museum, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and the Smithsonian Museum, Washington.[8]
Family
He had been married since 1964 to Rose,[2] daughter of composer Elisabeth Lutyens and granddaughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens.[1]
Abbaro died aged 80 in March 2016, survived by his wife and their son and two daughters.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Mo Abbaro, ceramicist – obituary", The Telegraph, 19 May 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Halida and Besheer, "Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro 1933-2016", CPA News: The Craft Potters Association, Number 167, pp. 8–9.
- ^ Natalie Bennett, "Sudan's ancient treasures reveal the mighty culture that humbled the pharoahs", The Independent, 29 August 2004.
- ^ "Mohammed Abdalla (Biographical details)", The British Museum.
- ^ Oliver Bloom, "The ceramicist", 18 October 2012. YouTube.
- ^ "Sudan, Democratic Republic of the — IV. Painting, graphic arts and sculpture", Oxford Islamic Studies Online.
- ^ a b c d Mo A Abbaro website.
- ^ "Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla", Smithsonian National Institute of African Art.
External links
- Oliver Bloom, "The ceramicist", YouTube video, 18 October 2012.
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