

Hi, I’m Misbah Wolf.
I’m a creative witch, a gothic storyteller, and an artistic alchemist.
A poet, musician, visual artist, portrait photographer, researcher, and performer.
My work is rooted in mysticism, gnostic thought, and Sufi traditions.
I’m always trying to bend time a little, stretch space, dissolve form—
let something through.
I believe every sound and image is a text from beyond—
a fragment from another world, a whisper from the unseen.
Art, for me, is a portal.
It’s where the now crashes into memory, and the ghosts of old rise up in new light.
But it’s not just about what I make.
I’m a medium for other artists—a doula for those finding their voice.
I help writers, performers, and creatives shape their presence,
feel their vision in their body,
and find a way to let it live in the world.
As a portrait photographer, I weave the magic of your inner world into something you can hold—
a trace, a tenderness, a fierce reminder of who you are.
I celebrate your mystery and your singular beauty.
Through creative direction, styling, mentorship, and storytelling,
I help turn raw energy into something that lands—something you can see, feel, and recognise as your own.
Like a diviner shaping smoke into meaning, I work with others to catch what’s just out of reach.
To let you be seen.
To make sure you are felt.
By others—and most of all, by yourself.
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.