Mo Abbaro

Mo Abbaro (17 October 1933 – 12 March 2016), sana known professionally as Mo Abdalla or Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro, be a London-based Sudanese ceramicist den potter, who has been described by artist Oliver Bloom as "one of de world's finest ceramicists".

Na dem born Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro insyd Abu Jibayha, Sudan. He graduate insyd Fine den Applied Arts from Khartoum Technical Institute insyd 1958, de following year winning a scholarship to London to study ceramics at de Central School of Arts den Crafts. Na he do postgraduate studies insyd industrial pottery design at de North Staffordshire College of Ceramics, after wey he had a period of training insyd chemical analyses of ceramics materials at de North Staffs College of Ceramics Technology. Na he go back to Sudan to teach ceramics for some years, but decided to return to England insyd 1966 to pursue ein career insyd Britain.

He taught ceramics at de Camden Arts Centre for more than two decades, den had many exhibitions insyd London—wey include at de Barbican Centre, de Whitechapel Gallery (as part of Africa '95), de Mall Galleries, den de Iraqi Cultural Centre—den elsewhere insyd de UK, as well as insyd de US den Sweden. Ein studio den showroom were insyd King Henry's Road, close to Primrose Hill.

He turned to writing insyd later life, wey publish works on ceramic technique, such as Modern Ceramics—On de Interplay of Forms den Surfaces (2000), as well as on ein own family history, wey include De History of de Abbaros of Sudan since de 15th Century (1997).

Ein ceramics be insyd de collections of London's British Museum, de Institut du Monde Arabe insyd Paris, den de Smithsonian Museum, Washington. Na ein work be shown insyd Frederique Cifuentes's 2017 exhibition Sudan: Emergence of Singularities at de P21 Gallery, London.

Na he be married to Rose (née Glennie), since 1964, daughter of composer Elisabeth Lutyens den granddaughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens.