Naomi Deyell is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, poetry, and ink drawing. Her practice explores how systems of belief, particularly religious and cultural repression, shape bodily autonomy, sexuality, and moral self-surveillance.

Drawing from her Japanese-Scottish heritage and her upbringing in the Mormon church, Deyell creates work rooted in vulnerability, discomfort, and emotional residue. Through personal narrative and psychological inquiry, she examines how shame, desire, and authority linger in the body long after belief systems are left behind.

Her work aims to provoke visceral responses, inviting viewers to feel seen, implicated, unsettled, or observed, while encouraging inward reflection on intimacy, control, and identity. Currently a psychology student at the University of British Columbia, Deyell’s interdisciplinary interests in social work, education, and art therapy inform a practice committed to honesty and sustained dialogue.