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VISUAL ART

Rawz creates in several visual mediums, see below for a selection of his work.

BOLD LINES

Bold Lines was inspired by Rawz’s poem Art Starts A Story, which traces the winding, confusing, beautiful paths our lives take - and how art connects us along the way. The poem reflects on how our stories inspire others, become part of their journeys, and spark new stories in turn. 

 

Commissioned by The Old Fire Station for the 2024 Marmalade Festival, the words have now found a home on the wall of the arts centre in the heart of Oxford through this mural commissioned for the 2025 festival.

 

Almost a sister piece for his previous work Dreams Of The Spires, the mural mirrors the poem’s journey: lines of text weaving through abstract shapes that fit together like a puzzle, echoing the many-sided lives, personalities, and stories that make up a community.

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What was once a plain white corridor between the theatre and the toilets is now… as someone put it… “a psychedelic experience.”

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NOTE: Activate sound on the video to hear the poem.

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DREAMS OF THE SPIRES

Rawz created Dreams of the Spires as part of OxTrail 2024, a public art trail raising money for Sobell House Hospice. The life-sized ox carries a design that reinterprets Oxford’s skyline through interlocking forms that symbolise the diverse stories and ideas of its residents.

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For countless hours, years, centuries, Oxford's famous spires have stood in silence, witnessing the city's dreams as the world changes around them. This work re-interprets the iconic skyline's shapes, weaving an abstract narrative through patterns. The forms interlock like puzzle pieces; a visual metaphor for the lives that inhabit the city, the unique coexisting stories and ideas that constantly influence each other, and the world around them in an interconnected, interdependent exchange, creating a perpetual state of transformation and evolution.

DREAMS OF THE SPIRES - a painted Ox sculpture by Rawz
Dreams Of The Spires - a painted Ox sculpture by Rawz
DREAMS OF THE SPIRES - a painted Ox sculpture by Rawz
It's A Jungle Out There - A collage by Rawz

It's A Jungle Out There.
Collage

Self Portrait #9
Digital Artwork

MONSTER BASH 1 by Rawz
MONSTER BASH 4 by Rawz
MONSTER BASH 2 by Rawz
MONSTER BASH 3 by Rawz

Four Monsters
Pencil Sketch

RAWZ Granny's Garden

Mother
Digital Artwork

RAWZ _ Dambudzo Marechera Portrait

Dambudzo Marechera Portrait
Permanent marker on wall

RAWZ Centered

Centred
Digital Artwork

RAWZ Toxic Masculine A TV

Toxic Masculine A TV
Digital Artwork

RAWZ HANDS DOWN

Hands Down
Pencil drawing, digitally coloured

Photography

a homeless panda teddy
A police surveillance sign peeks out from a bush
A dead white dove with it's throat torn out
A sign reads NO KING in Greater Leys, Oxford
A sign warns: City Of Oxford This Is Not A Playground
a tree protection zone surrounded by cut down trees
bamboo growing through tarmac
A neon sign reading flower sale visible at the bottom of a drain
A tent that is someone's home on a busy Oxford shopping street
A sunset
an abandoned pair of unicorn slippers in an alleyway
Palestine peace camp occupies Oxford University
a dead sunflower
A treasure on the tarmac
A multi coloured drip of paint
A homeless persons bed outside the fire exit of Oxford town hall
A woman and two children walk past a pile of rubble at the former site of Blackbird Leys Community Centre Oxford
A faded Extinction Rebellion logo on the pavement
A boarded up church
Old walls and new walls meet
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