Michael Cardew
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Michael Ambrose Cardew, was an English studio potter who worked in West Africa for twenty years.
Cardew in 1917
A slipware cider flagon Michael Cardew made at the Winchcombe Pottery, c.1935.
Thrown Bowl by Michael Cardew
Wenford Bridge Pottery
Ladi Kwali
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Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator.
Michael Cardew
…Stichbury. Another of his western students at Abuja was Peter Dick in 1961-62. His trainees were mainly Hausa and Gwari men, but he spotted the pots of Ladi Kwali and in 1954 she became the first woman potter at the Training Centre, soon followed by other women. As a result of Cardew's extensive contact with and…
Ladi Kwali
Hand-built pot by Ladi Kwali with incised figures; W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramics Collection, York Art Gallery