Noelia Ramon is a poet, visual artist and journalist. Born in Spain and based in Sydney, she makes work where words and image meet, attending closely to place, memory and the experience of living between languages and cultures. She creates across poetry, photography, short film and visual essays: work that moves slowly through a world that doesn't. A space where someone, somewhere, might feel seen.
For over two decades she has worked across TV journalism, filmmaking, creative production, and cultural and political campaigns, collaborating with brands including Qantas, Woolworths and David Jones. But it is through art, and the art of poetry above all, that she goes deepest.
Her first book, The Man in the Photograph (5 Islands Press, 2025), blends image, poetry and prose into a meditation on presence and belonging in the city of Sydney. It was launched alongside a solo exhibition at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf in June 2025.
She is currently working on her second manuscript.
Artist Statement
I write, I photograph and I follow what draws my attention.
I move through cities collecting small moments: a gesture, a pause, the way light rests on something for a second before disappearing. These fragments become the starting point of my work.
My practice lives in the space between image and text. Sometimes a photograph comes first. Sometimes it's a line. Together, they become a way of looking slowly at what is already there.
I am interested in place, in what specific landscapes, cities and streets carry underneath their surface. And in what it means to belong somewhere you didn't grow up, to think in one language and feel in another.
My work begins in the ordinary and moves inward from there.