Ray Felix Carter
Multi-disciplinary Artist
Ray Felix Carter
Ray Felix Carter is a multi-disciplinary artist-entity whose expansive practice spans across facilitation, narrative illustration & comics, spoken word poetry, sound installation, drawing-as-performance & costume-making.
Circling assimilation & difference, transformations & personae, becoming & unbecoming, their work seeks/creates space for Black, Queer & neuro-diverse embodiment/s within a social and physical landscape that is positioned against their existence/s.
Ray's cross-disciplinary creative work functions to claim a place in the world and to cultivate new ways to connect with ourselves/each-other outside of extractive colonial ways of relating.
They draw from folk practices across cultures and diaspora, myths, legends, stories, folklore and collective imaginings.
Ray’s practice as an artist is intrinsically linked with their community projects and facilitation work.
Their mixed-media visual pieces, performance and poetry projects stand with co-curated community exhibitions, events and workshops.
Working alongside Origins Untold, a Folkestone-based organisation which celebrates African-heritage people in Folkestone, and Transfolke, a creative social group for trans and nonbinary people, they put into practice their belief that art-making is essential for connection, community and wellbeing .
Performance ///
Dis/connected, Last Fridays 2022
chalk, grass, land, SALT + EARTH festival, 2022
Facilitation ///
Telling the Untold, Make Your Mark, 2021
Here’s What She Said To Me, post-show workshop, 2022
Our Screen Heritage Exhibition Tour, with Josie Carter, 2022
chalk, grass, land workshop, SALT + EARTH, 2023
Resting, writing workshop and performance, with Origins Untold, 2023
Exhibitions ///
Black Men Are Good, 2020 (co-curated with Aida Silvestri)
The Untold Exhibition, 2021 (curated)
Do Not Touch, The Stables, 2021
Who Dear, Me Dear, Queer Dear? 2022
Braver Than I used To Be, Transfolke Exhibition, Brewery Tap, 2022 (curated)
Presence, The Stables, 2022
Illustration & Design
With a degree in Illustration, Ray’s sensitive and expressive drawing style lends itself to narrative illustration, bringing liveliness to fairy tales, myths, the speculative and the otherworldly.
They’ve created colourful and playful children’s book illustrations, unique character art for RPGs, eye-catching poster design for community events, and cover artwork for albums and podcasts.
Ray’s poetry, zines, comics and role-playing games are invitations into other worlds, to imagine alternative futures, to navigate and share tools for survival, reflection and connection.
They use collaborative storytelling within the worlds of science fiction & fantasy as gateways into liberatory practices and ways of relating.
Ray’s writing, games and comics work values lightness, whimsy and playfulness whilst approaching and examining complex topics like care, apocalypse and suicidality.
writing. games & zines