In 2014, Raz launched The Darling Beast, a creative brand that constructs visuals which explore the hybrid intersections of time, identity, resistance, and cultural surrealism. The brand plays on Raz’s personal shared culture stemming from both her Kurdish roots and British upbringing. The Darling Beast has grown into an independent creative studio with a strong reach in the region and diaspora. The artwork produced has since contributed to an extensive array of diverse projects and events in South Kurdistan, from supplying artwork used for events to highlight the victims of gender-based violence in the region to celebrating female centric events and commemorations. In 2021, Raz established The Darling Beast studios in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region and launched her print and merchandise shop. In addition to the launch, a successful 3-month internship program for young, local creative young women was also rolled out in 2021.

"Raz experiments with other artistic mediums like archival digital imaging. Recasting the past through telling her story, she picks through Kurdish folklore, poetry and art to create images with playful pops of colour. 

Her goal is to write back the women who are misunderstood, written out and forgotten. To remind the world that ancient Kurdish culture was a matriarchal one. With a rhythmic pace and boundless colour, her creative work spurs her followers on a self-discovery trail, dotted with portraits of Kurdish heroines and mythologies of female power that rattle the stereotype of Muslim women in need of saving.

The individual women in her images are often faceless, representing both the multitude of women joined up against repression and the timelessness of the women's struggle across generations." - Burcu Ozcelik

In 2021, Raz launched The Jiyan Archives, a multi-media platform dedicated to preserving and documenting the lives, culture, identity, and diversity of Kurdish women both in Kurdistan and in the diaspora.

Selected Exhibitions, Artwork & Publication features:

• 2024, Another World is Possible, Travelling Exhibition - NYC & New Jersey, USA

• 2023, Fire in Their Eyes, Group Exhibition, Kunstlinie - Almere, The Netherlands

• 2022. The Space Between, Group Exhibition - Goodspace Gallery, Sydney, Australia

• 2022. Baraye Azadi, Fundraiser Exhibition - The Makers Studio, New York, USA

• 2020. Corona Art, Art Book – Ludvig Rage, Belgium

• 2020. Women's Empowerment & Professional Development - School of Social Work, Barry University of Miami, Florida.

• 2019. Jiyan, Group Exhibition – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia

• 2019. 100 Women Gallery - UNESCO World Heritage Site, Citadel of Erbil

• 2017. Kurdistan…A Story of Survival, Photo Book - SEED Foundation