Ile Ọkàn (House of the Soul) brings together sculpture, vessels, stools, photography and sound to create a space that is part shrine, part altar, part sacred room, all shaped by ritual, memory, and a desire for connection. An homage to Yoruba culture, to Bisila’s own spirituality and to women makers, the collection also pays tribute to the materials themselves - clay, plaster, bronze and wax - as the companions and teachers that they have become.

Visitors will be accompanied around the space by a soundscape by multidisciplinary artist and curator Maxine Pennington and this journey added to further by a small library curated by the Seed Archive - whose books help to tell the stories of some of the cultures Bisila has drawn inspiration from.

An events programme featuring a Friday late with specially curated live music, a supper club from OmVed’s own kitchen and a ‘barn conversation’ to hear more from Bisila herself will run though the exhibition dates - see more below.

Surrounded by the regenerative gardens at OmVed, Ile Ọkàn seeks to create the artist’s own little universe. A space not to rush through, but to sit with, together.