There Will Be Mud: Contemporary Ceramics At The Hayward
Jennifer Lucy Allan, The Quietus
November 2022

It is always a joy to see pots by the grand dame of British ceramics, Magdalene Odundo, whose hand-built forms in burnished blacks and terracotta reference ancient and traditional forms, with added HR Giger-ish spines and graceful necks.
Her pots have added presence through the contrast drawn with Takuro Kuwata’s oozing candy-coloured forms. The engorged blue and pink dome (the main show image) is far bigger than I expected. It towers Akira-like; a skittles and cola experiment frozen mid-surge. Other blobs or chawan-like shapes are coated in crater glazes, syrupy metallics, or studded with gold and green pimples like rare caterpillars. […]