Hi, I’m Misbah Wolf.
I am a creative witch, gothic storyteller, and artistic alchemist—a poet, musician, visual artist, researcher, and performer. My work is rooted in mysticism, gnostic philosophy, and Sufi traditions, seeking to transcend time, space, and dimension through creative expression.
I believe that every sound and image is a text from beyond—a fragment of another realm, a whisper from the unseen. Art is a convergence of timelines, a summoning of past, present, and future. It is an act of transmission, a portal where the "new of now" collides with the ghosts of old.
But my work is not just about my own creations.
I am a medium for others, a guide for artists seeking to bring their own visions to life.
I am doula for artists, writers, and performers to help refine their presence, shape their narratives, and fully embody their creative identity. Through styling, artistic direction, creative mentorship, and storytelling, I translate raw creative energy into something tangible, visual, and fully realized.
Like a diviner shaping smoke into symbols, I work with artists to find the essence of their vision—whether in photoshoots, performances, branding, or storytelling. I ensure they are seen, felt, and understood—not just by an audience, but by themselves.
Work With Me – Creative direction, styling & artist mentorship
Explore My Writing – Poetry, essays & storytelling
Music & Performance – Experimental sound, spoken word & collaboration
Collette 2019- Ink and watercolours A4
Current invocations
Book of Shadows
Creative Victoria Supported
This project is an exploration of spiritual/esoteric/pagan/primary texts and responding and evolving them into creative work, namely a book that is part 'auto-mythological and magic realism', a series of musical recordings, and images. What is shown here are the influences, ideas and stories that are forming part of my manuscript 'The Book of Shadows' This book will be a full length fiction book.
Sound
soundscapes collection
My work is intimately bonded and evolving through sound, from storytelling, to singing, to experimental sounds, which take listeners on a fully embodied and intimate experience of my imaginings.
Vision
Third Eye Visions
My creative process is also connected to visual aesthetics. The visuals express the tensions and limits where words cannot go...
Publications
Places, both print, on-line, and IRL where I have shared my work/ currently sharing my work
Confess
entries into my thoughts
This is a collection of my writing that is eclectic, diasporic, and without genre
My second book 2022
published by Vagabond Press
Carapace takes for its title an extension of the idea of shelter, protection and home and attempts to crack the outer shell of language to reveal the vulnerability of language forms, relationships, and safety. It archives the journey of a young girl towards developing, losing, and leaving relationships within share-houses. This book is a follow on from Rooftops in Karachi, where the young girl has left her family home in Australia to begin at the age of 15 to navigate the world of relationships within the boundaries of temporary share-housing. Further responding to Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space is the conviction that there are traceable transcendent possibilities of personal poetic phenomenology within the realm of the house.
Short stories
tall tales, deep wellls, adventures on trams, adventures into ghost lands, the consciousness in hands--these works are a collection of short stories--some of which have been published and some of which are biding their time.
carapace
Rooftops in Karachi
This was my first collection of poetry 2018
published by Vagabond Press
Highly commended in the Shapcott Poetry awards and critically acclaimed.
Behind my eyes are the eyes of a horse looking out’. In this dynamic collection of prose poems, Misbah spins a bright new compass over fragmented, improvised worlds. Her poetry scopes the aftershocks of imperialism and voices wild new visions, bringing us to the territory behind the eyes. With what James Baldwin called ‘perception at the pitch of passion’, Misbah's poems stun with their sudden intensities, their casual intimacies, their mapping of psychic expansions out of place. Their vocal resonance is emotionally protean—tones move swiftly from cool doom to playful grace—expressing the pleasures of observation and the strange consolations of unbelonging. —Lucy Van
While this is not the cover of the book, it is a photo of my ancestors on our farm near Karachi--I think this photo has hints of the ineffable..exquisitely caught.
Videos
Music videos and performances
I am developing a body of work using cut-up films from free archives and also performances set to my music.
