Mo Abbaro | |
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Born | Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro 17 October 1933 Abu Jibayha,
Sudan |
Died | 12 March 2016
London, England | (aged 82)
Other names | Mo Abdalla; Mohammed Abdalla Abbaro; Mohmed Abdalla; Mo Abdalla Abbaro |
Education | Khartoum Technical Institute; Central School of Arts and Crafts; North Staffordshire College of Ceramics |
Occupation(s) | Ceramicist and potter |
Spouse |
Rose Glennie (
m. 1964) |
Children | 3 |
Mo Abbaro (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016), [1] [2] also known professionally as Mo Abdalla or Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro, [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".
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. [5] [6] 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. [6]
He taught ceramics at the Camden Arts Centre for more than two decades, [2] and had many exhibitions in London—including at the Barbican Centre, the Whitechapel Gallery (as part of Africa '95), [7] the Mall Galleries, and the Iraqi Cultural Centre [1]—and elsewhere in the UK, as well as in the US and Sweden. [6] His studio and showroom were in King Henry's Road, close to Primrose Hill. [6]
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] His work was shown in Frederique Cifuentes's 2017 exhibition Sudan: Emergence of Singularities at the P21 Gallery, London. [9]
He was married to Rose (née Glennie), [1] since 1964, [2] daughter of composer Elisabeth Lutyens and granddaughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens. [1]
Abbaro died aged 80 in London on 12 March 2016, [10] survived by his wife and their son and two daughters. [1] [7]
Mo Abbaro | |
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Born | Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro 17 October 1933 Abu Jibayha,
Sudan |
Died | 12 March 2016
London, England | (aged 82)
Other names | Mo Abdalla; Mohammed Abdalla Abbaro; Mohmed Abdalla; Mo Abdalla Abbaro |
Education | Khartoum Technical Institute; Central School of Arts and Crafts; North Staffordshire College of Ceramics |
Occupation(s) | Ceramicist and potter |
Spouse |
Rose Glennie (
m. 1964) |
Children | 3 |
Mo Abbaro (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016), [1] [2] also known professionally as Mo Abdalla or Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro, [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".
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. [5] [6] 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. [6]
He taught ceramics at the Camden Arts Centre for more than two decades, [2] and had many exhibitions in London—including at the Barbican Centre, the Whitechapel Gallery (as part of Africa '95), [7] the Mall Galleries, and the Iraqi Cultural Centre [1]—and elsewhere in the UK, as well as in the US and Sweden. [6] His studio and showroom were in King Henry's Road, close to Primrose Hill. [6]
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] His work was shown in Frederique Cifuentes's 2017 exhibition Sudan: Emergence of Singularities at the P21 Gallery, London. [9]
He was married to Rose (née Glennie), [1] since 1964, [2] daughter of composer Elisabeth Lutyens and granddaughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens. [1]
Abbaro died aged 80 in London on 12 March 2016, [10] survived by his wife and their son and two daughters. [1] [7]