Biography
Abdo Nagi Abdullah Kaid (b. Shuhali, Ibb Province, Yemen 1941 - d. UK 2001) studied for his BA (Hons) Degree at Middlesex Polytechnic (1984-88), and, following his Degree Show at The Mall Galleries, London, was invited to exhibit by private galleries in London, Alresford, Great Bircham and Ashwell. Shows mounted by The Crafts Council (1991), The Contemporary Art Society (1992) and The Craft Potters’Association (1993) were followed by A Celebration of Art at St Alban’s Abbey (1993), The Arab Fine Art Exhibition, London (1995) and Decorative Arts Today’at Bonhams, London (1995, 1996 and 1998); these led to further exhibitions in London, Leeds, Canterbury and Beverley. In 1995, as a member of the Hertfordshire Arts Forum, he exhibited in an International Crafts Festival in Hungary and his work won First Prize Keramia. During the Yemen Festival in London in 1997, five of his pieces were shown at The British Museum, and retained there on ‘indefinite loan’. In 1998 his work was included in Interiors an exhibition at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, and in 1999 was also shown at the third Arab Communities Conference at the University of Westminster.
