Born in Baghdad, Iraq circa 1942-2004
Nuha al-Radi trained at Byamshaw School of Art, and Chelsea Pottery in London from 1961-1963, then went on to teach at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon from 1971-1975.
In 1990 she gave up ceramics and started painting and making sculptures from found objects. She produced many ceramic wall reliefs for government and private sectors in Iraq. One exhibition, titled "Embargo Art," held in Amman during the late 1990's, a period of Western sanctions against Iraq, consisted of "found objects" like old mufflers from cars, the kind of things Iraqis had to use to get by, she said.
“Although both a ceramist and a painter, Ms. Radi was best known for her book ‘Baghdad Diaries,’ a vivid account of the texture of daily life during the first gulf war and its aftermath, when she found shelter from the bombing in the family orchard in a well-to-do neighborhood.” Niel Macfarcuhar.
Al-Radi participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the Arab World, the UK and the USA.
She died in Beirut, Lebanon in 2004.
