Rosy Noraika

I am a multidisciplinary artist, using narrative and spoken poetry alongside linoprints, illustration, metalwork, and ceramic sculptures. For the UWE Degree show at Spike, I used my practice to create a whimsical multimedia poetic narrative about the sanctity of life, death, and grief, from a more spiritual, witchy, and often playful perspective. My work in this show is a narrative of the sacred, balanced, and cyclical life that we share with nature and those around us, all told from the perspective of a Raven as he grows and observes the world. I am greatly inspired by nature and folklore, but mostly I like to create work from my own experiences and observations of the narratives I see around me, telling stories using a rhythmic, playful, and often quite child-like cadence to show the beauty and innocence that balances the pain and heartbreak held in all of our experiences in

life.

rhrandnor@gmail.com

Song of the Raven

'Song of the Raven' is a poetic narrative and soundscape, written and performed by me, following the life of a Raven as he grows, lives, observes and experiences the songs of circled life.

'The Raven' - 2025, metalwork sculpture

The Raven

Steel metalwork Raven, using plasma-cutting, spot welding and brazing to shape and join the wings and body.

Her flower blooms

Metalwork lamp using my great-grandmother’s old wedding silverware, brazed together and bent by hand. I wanted to honour the memory of my grandmother, using these parts of her to make something that symbolises new life, beauty, and growth from death.

Dance of the Maypole

Layered linoprint on paper, using a line from my poem 'Crowside Offering'

Crowside Offering

Layered linoprint poem

Her Twisting Branches

Linoprint on kraft paper