Raven Arbuckle is a diverse media artist & published illustrator, with work appearing at various galleries and events across the country.
Her work is visceral, surreal and deals with the liminal body and an internal mythology that is unfaithful to external dogma and tradition. She considers her creative life an exploration of the intersection of the profane and the sacred and the dissonance between the definitions of psychosis and psychological alchemy as spiritual experience, addressing relationships with death, exile, sexuality and transgression from the lens of an indigenous and 2S woman living with a schizophrenic mood disorder, existing in a post-colonial apocalyptic world.
Raven has a BFA in illustration from RMCAD and is pursuing coursework in creative writing and a future MFA.
To contact please email inkdrunkghoul@gmail.com
I like to work, writing and making things with my hands — traditional media, charcoal, ink or clay is my favorite, I like the mess of it and writing on my typewriter. The slugs hit the paper like little gunshots and it’s very cathartic and private. I work a day job when I have to, and in my free time I like to spend time with my cat and my Dove, or play pool at the bar downtown, and go to my friends shows when I have the money.
I’m hermitic by nature and if I don’t make an effort to go out I get completely stuck indoors and inside - of books and dreams and anything I can make up. I’m paranoid too, so if I don’t create, I will ruin my life. Pent up creativity will kill someone like me. I must do it, or die, so I don’t care about fame or any of that. I like good food and feminine rage, and I think everyone should read more.
I’m currently working out of northern New Mexico, living in Albuquerque with my cat Zena and my partner, Mr. Dove III, in our tucked away nest.