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Sudanese Ceramic and Sculpture Artist
About Zainab Ud-Din
In 2019, Zainab Ud-Din buried a series of unglazed ceramic vessels in the red clay banks of the Blue Nile near Sennar for 47 days, retrieving them only after seasonal flooding had etched natural mineral stains and fissures into their surfaces. This 'Nile Burial Series' became a turning point, merging ancestral Sudanese pottery techniques with ecological time as a co-author. Her work rejects decorative abstraction: each incised motif, from the zigzag ‘water serpent’ of Beja oral tales to the interlocking diamond grids of Nubian bridal baskets, is carved using a reed stylus she harvests herself near Dongola. She fires exclusively in wood-burning kilns built from reclaimed mudbrick, calibrating heat by observing smoke density and ash color, a method passed down from her grandmother’s workshop in Omdurman. Her sculptures don’t illustrate folklore; they hold space for its silence, weight, and unresolved tension, especially where colonial archives erased women’s authorship of pattern language.
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- “How did the 2019 Nile burial experiment change your approach to surface texture?”
- “What’s the story behind the 'broken palm frond' motif in your Khartoum exhibition?”
- “Why do you refuse electric kilns—even when commissioned internationally?”
- “Which Beja folk tale most directly shaped the hollow core of your 'Thirst Vessel' series?”