KAHLI GASKIN
Writer. Director. Storyteller.
Kahli Gaskin is a multi-disciplinary storyteller whose work spans screen, literature, audio, and visual art. Her creative practice is defined by emotional intelligence, nuance, and a distinctly female perspective.
Across all mediums, her stories live in the spaces between people — where relationships shift, identities evolve, and change unfolds gently rather than dramatically.
A CONNECTED CREATIVE PRACTICE
Kahli’s creative career began in songwriting, where she developed a strong instinct for rhythm, tone, and emotional pacing — sensibilities that continue to inform her work across formats. She has since written and directed screen projects, published literary work, developed audio storytelling, and created visual and exhibition-based pieces.
Rather than working within a single medium, Kahli approaches storytelling as a connected practice. Ideas often move between forms — from page to screen, from sound to image — allowing stories to find the shape that best serves them.
WRITING & PUBLISHED WORK
Kahli’s creative practice extends beyond the screen into literature and long-form narrative work. She is the author of the debut novel Sycophant, alongside a growing body of writing developed across adult fiction and narrative concepts designed to live across multiple formats.
Her written work explores many of the same themes found in her screen projects — identity, relationships, belonging, and personal transformation — translated into stories that invite readers into emotionally rich, carefully observed worlds. These narratives are grounded in character and interiority, favouring emotional truth over plot-driven spectacle.
Writing remains a central pillar of Kahli’s practice, informing her work across other mediums and providing space for ideas to deepen, evolve, and find their most honest expression.
CHILDREN’S STORIES & IMAGINATIVE WORLDS
Alongside her work for adult audiences, Kahli has developed a range of children’s stories and imaginative worlds shaped by curiosity, emotional intelligence, and warmth. These projects are designed to live across both written and audio formats, allowing young audiences to experience stories through reading, listening, and imaginative engagement.
Rather than simplifying emotion, Kahli’s children’s work respects the inner lives of young people, offering narratives that explore feeling, connection, and wonder in age-appropriate but emotionally resonant ways. Her stories aim to nurture empathy, curiosity, and a sense of possibility.
Concepts such as Violette World reflect Kahli’s interest in creating expansive story spaces that can grow gently across books, audio storytelling, and visual expression — worlds children can return to, inhabit, and grow alongside.
VISUAL ART & EXHIBITIONS
In addition to writing and directing, Kahli’s creative practice includes visual art and exhibition-based work. These projects explore storytelling through image, texture, and spatial experience, often blurring the boundaries between narrative, visual art, and atmosphere.
Her exhibition work offers an alternative entry point into her storytelling — one that privileges mood, observation, and quiet detail. These pieces invite audiences to engage physically and emotionally with story, allowing meaning to emerge through space, material, and visual rhythm rather than linear narrative alone.
As with her writing and screen work, Kahli’s visual art is observational and emotionally grounded, forming part of a broader, connected creative practice that moves fluidly between forms.
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
Kahli Gaskin’s work moves fluidly across mediums, but remains anchored in the same core impulse — to tell honest, human stories with care, depth, and integrity.
Each project forms part of a long-term creative practice shaped by curiosity, observation, and respect for the quiet power of storytelling.
Further information about Kahli’s novels, children’s stories and audio projects, exhibitions, and screen work can be accessed via following Kahli below.