Bisila Noha

B I S I L A N O H A

Photograph by Christian Cassiel

Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean London-based artist, researcher and writer. With her work she aims to challenge Western views on art and craft; to question what we understand as productive and worthy in capitalist societies; and to reflect upon the idea of home and oneness pulling from personal experiences in different pottery communities.

She is a storyteller with a particular interest in the contributions of women of colour to the history of art and craft. As such, her words are a bridge bringing the past - the forgotten, the ignored, the belittled - to the present; to us.

Her practice extends from material investigations into the vessel that bring alive clay’s history; to sculptures using a range of materials which connect her to her roots, the makers that precede her and our shared past and humanity.

Bisila ’s work has been featured in many publications including the Financial Times and the New York Times. Notable exhibitions include the landmark exhibition ‘Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art’ at Two Temple Place, London (2022), York Art Gallery (2022) and the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York (2025). This presented the work of Ladi Kwali, Magdalene Odundo and Bisila Noha, three generations of Black women artists working with clay along with international contemporary artists Vivian Chinasa Ezhuga, Jade Montserrat, Julia Phillips, Phoebe Collings-James and Shawanda Corbett, to 'celebrate surprising new ways of exploring one of the world’s oldest artform.'

Her work can be found in eight museum and public collections: The V&A; National Museum Scotland, Edinburgh; Crafts Council, UK; Nottingham Castle Museum; Ulster Museum, Belfast; The Box, Plymouth; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta.