Rafaela Mori is a Brazilian-born artist based in Australia, exploring the emotional and psychological landscapes shaped by place, notions of belonging, and the construction of identity in transit. Her artistic practice is rooted in her experience of migration, a continuous negotiation between worlds, cultures, and ways of being.

Through botanical forms native to the regions she has inhabited, combined with imagined elements of her own creation, she develops compositions that occupy a cultural in-between territory, where identity is not fixed but constantly redefined. These works embody a state of hybridity, in which invented fruits and plants serve as visual metaphors for the layered experiences of living between cultures.

AWARDS & HONOURS

2026 Bundanon Artistic Residency

2024/2025 Arts & Creativity Grant

2023 NAVA Ignition Award

2023 Faculty Commendation

2022 Faculty Commendation

SOLO EXHIBITION

2025 "A Place in Between- Sugar House Studios, Brookvale, NSW

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 “MUY by Other Latin Arts” - Marrickville Town Hall, NSW

2025 “From Where She StandsBy Common Threads Collective - Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW

2025 “The Local” - McGlade Gallery, Strathfield, NSW

2025 "Spirit of Home” - Fundraising for UNHCR supporting refugee woman.

2025 “ACB Selects” - Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport, NSW

2023 “Untitled” -McGlade Gallery, Strathfield, NSW

2022 “Artefacts & Oddities” - Bow & Arrow, Manly, NSW

2022 “WALL 2 WALL” - McGlade Gallery, Strathfield, NSW

2021 “Romance Is Not Dead ” - Bow & Arrow, Manly, NSW

2021 “WALL 2 WALL”- McGlade Gallery, Strathfield, NSW

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design, 2023 - Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Marketing & Communications Certificate IV, 2021 - Australian Pacific College