Carolina Haraki

Carolina Haraki is a Cypriot multidisciplinary artist currently studying Printed Textiles MA at the Royal College of Art. She specialises in public, site-specific and community-centred artwork that interweaves craft skill with contemporary narratives.

Driven by her desire to explore visual storytelling and her enthusiasm for the power of colour, she studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art where she graduated with a first class honours degree.

Carolina’s work has been exhibited in Cyprus, London and Hong Kong and most recently in Edinburgh, where she was commissioned by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland to paint the first giraffe for the launch of ‘Giraffe About Town,' a large-scale, public art trail.

Other selected professional experiences include working for Alexander McQueen as a Special Projects Freelancer, and for Muse Productions as a Storyboard Artist. She most recently collaborated with AGAPI, a migrant centre in Cyprus for her final project titled 'Uprooted.'

Through her experiences she has developed a unique artistic handwriting which is grounded by a reflective and well researched practise.

How can I challenge and reinvent the way we experience spaces through storytelling in my unique language of colours, materials and forms?

During isolation, Carolina re-examined how she experienced human connection in relation the spaces and environments we inhabit.

Her thinking and making approach have shifted from 2-dimensional into 3-dimensional sculptural works that consider location, scale, colour and context, as tools to build deeper human connections in relation to the living world.

How can I facilitate a more empathetic relationship between humans and nature?

Through her project this year, ‘Uprooted,’ Carolina has been investigating the parallel journeys between plant and human migration through collected stories of displacement, hardship, humanity, community and empathy with hope for a new life.

This project tackles serious social and environmental issues that are interwoven with migration, such as the marginalisation of refugees from communities and climate change.

By revealing personal stories in her creative handwriting, she wishes to build shared placemaking experiences in communities that facilitate a playful, colourful and joyful perspective in relation to our human relationships and to the environments we inhabit.

'Uprooted' follows the parallel journeys between plant and human migration. Personal stories of displacement, hardship, humanity, community, empathy and hope for a new life are expressed by friends from Cameroon, Cyprus, Persia and Syria.

The patterns on the stems indicate the origins of the flowers

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‘The Journey of a Floating World’ invites people to experience public spaces in new and personal ways through an immersive experience. The ambiguity and playfulness of the sculptural forms provokes one's imagination. Where did they come from? What are their stories? What do they symbolise?

Through this interactive dialogue a different narrative and individualised spatial experience is created, which stems from the inner world of each person.

Investigating the physical properties of green-cast acrylic through different making processes. An interplay between form, scale and colour, where different layering combinations reveal new imagined species that are originally inspired by native UK wildflowers.

Carolina Haraki

'Uprooted' follows the parallel journeys between plant and human migration. Personal stories of displacement, hardship, humanity, community, empathy and hope for a new life are expressed by friends from Cameroon, Cyprus, Persia and Syria.

‘The Journey of a Floating World’ invites people to experience public spaces in new and personal ways through an immersive experience. The ambiguity and playfulness of the sculptural forms provokes one's imagination. Where did they come from? What are their stories? What do they symbolise?

Through this interactive dialogue a different narrative and individualised spatial experience is created, which stems from the inner world of each person.

Investigating the physical properties of green-cast acrylic through different making processes. An interplay between form, scale and colour, where different layering combinations reveal new imagined species that are originally inspired by native UK wildflowers.

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