Bea Nutayi is a Toronto-based writer and interdisciplinary artist working across narrative, visual, and conceptual forms. Her practice is rooted in language, with a sustained focus on how stories are shaped through attention, memory, and emotional precision.

Folktales are a central influence in her work, particularly their ability to distill transformation, symbolism, and emotional logic into deceptively simple forms. She is interested in how these narrative structures can be reimagined within contemporary contexts, where meaning emerges through atmosphere, repetition, and subtle shifts in perception.

Her practice is also informed by Bini storytelling traditions, especially their oral and symbolic dimensions. This influence appears in her sensitivity to rhythm, voice, and the fluid nature of narrative, where stories evolve through retelling and carry traces of both preservation and change. She approaches narrative as something living, shaped as much by transmission as by authorship.