Axenia Raulet

Exploring Raw Identity through Visuals, Sound and Movement

"We are made of layers, cells, constellations."

Anaïs Nin

Multilingual creator and inclusive facilitator crafting participatory arts that hold space for embodied joy, playful chaos and tender rebellion.
Rooted in physical expression intertwined with sound and visual experiments that celebrate raw and divergent realities.
Attuned to vulnerability as a powerful shared thread — especially supporting queer and neurodivergent migrant communities.
Passionate about celebratory, accessible art where sustainable materials, practices and sounds create organic interconnections.
Supported by ACE, WEMA, PM Studio & other trusts.

I am drawn to the intricate depths of identity—the raw, unfiltered layers hidden beneath the masks we wear daily. Through visuals, sound, and movement, I peel back the superficial to reveal the vulnerable, authentic core of what it means to be human.

My work is unapologetically raw: it embraces the visceral and imperfect, cradling chaos until it refines into something tender yet fierce - a shared solitude—a space of recognition amid isolation.

In this interplay, my work becomes a mirror reflecting our multifaceted, contradictory selves once the performance of identity falls away.

We are forever alone together - woven into the same fierce, living web.

Recent projects

Solo Exhibitions

Engines + Beasts V, November 2025, Project 83, Newquay

Engines + Beasts IV, September 2025, The Chintz, Falmouth

Engines + Beasts III, July – September 2024, Grain Barge, Bristol

Engines + Beasts II, March-May 2024, Tobacco Factory, Bristol

Engines + Beasts, September 2023, Dareshack, Bristol

The 1920 Collection, 4-17th April 2022,

Cass Art, Bristol

Poster, Musicart and Bookcovers

Poster for Other Minds Festival, September 2024, Watershed

Cover Art for Delinquescent Beings, A Neuroqueering Book of Love, May 2024

Voice and Cover art for Atelophobia by Ghost Seminar

Cover Art for Lordvessel by Lawi Anywar

Publications

Hyperfocushorror, Winter and Spring Issue 2026

Semioculus XXI

Contemporary Collage Magazine issue#35

2025 Pecha Kucha Talk - Fragmented Identity, Bristol, UK

2025 Pervasive Media Studio, Tame in Chaos, Bristol, UK

2020 - PRSC, We are all threads of the same yarn, Bristol, UK

2009 - 2016 Radio Producer for Cobra à pois, Radiogas + Radiosonar, Italy

Intimate

storytelling

Credit: Julian Preece Photography

Recent

awards

2025 Bristol Redistro Fund

2024 WEMA - Freelance Creative Education Grant

2024 Spiral Collective Residency: Sustainable art practices, Falmouth, UK

2024 Gane Trust Grant

2023 Resident at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, UK

2023 Intercultural Roots Grant - Art and Movement Residency, Yorkshire, UK

2021 Traumlands Project, ACE

2020 The Eaton fund Grant

2025 Spiral Collective, Falmouth, UK

2022 -2024 -Wake the Tiger, Bristol, UK

2023 The Wall, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK

2020 The lost Cabaret, Paris, France

2019 -- Brave New World, Amblin Television, Wales

2017- 2018 Eden Project, Cornwall, UK

2012-2014 Lysistrata, Theatron Company, Rome, Italy

Performance

Credit: Craig Fuller Photography

2024 Butoh training with Ima Tenko, Kyoto, Japan

2023 - Butoh training with Mitsuyo Uesugi, London, UK

2023 Trisha Brown School

New York, USA

2020 - - Clown Training with

Holly Stoppit, Robyn Hambrook,

Igne Berkauskaite, Bristol, UK

2019 -- The Curious School of Puppetry, Bristol, UK

2019 Circus Training with Swamp Circus Trust, Falmouth, UK

2019 LISPA Intensive: Clowning and Comical Worlds, Berli, Germany

2015–2016 Physical Theater with Teatro dei Gatti, Bologna, Italy

Professional Training

Education

2025 Diploma: Special Needs Vanderbilt University IRIS Center

2015 Internship: Italian Studies, Université de Caen, France

2014–2016 MA in Italian Culture & Language for Foreigners University of Bologna,

Bologna, Italy

2013 Internship: German Studies,

Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Germany

2011–2014 BA in Linguistic & Intercultural Mediation, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Death Meditation

Would you like to experience a liminal moment?

Slow movement is slow space—
a rebellion against the relentless machine,
rejecting disconnection,
reviving our senses.
As we move slowly,
breath and motion unite,
thoughtful responses replace reactivity.

Just a moment of stillness is a chance to reboot...

Sound experiments

Discover

Enjoy

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." P.P.

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