Bisila Noha (b. 1988) is a London-based ceramicist of Spanish and Equatorial Guinean heritage. Strongly influenced by Japanese ceramics, she makes ‘simple’ ceramic pieces that serve as a canvas for abstract landscapes or as the embodiment of reflections and personal life stories. Noha has made her own journey back to forgotten Black (African) female potters like Kouame Kakaha from Ivory Coast and Ladi Kwali from Nigeria through her creative practice. Noha’s two-legged vessels are a metaphor for the feeling of in-betweeness she often feels given her background: a conjunction of two legs, two parents, two cultures, two races, combined to birth something new. Later discovering this form was previously created by Kakaha in 1995, this led to her current ongoing research and ceramics project, Searching for Kouame Kakaha: A celebration of the unnamed women of clay; our shared mothers and grandmothers.
