Craven, Keziah (AUS, Victoria),
Between Light and Shadow
BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW
‘Between Light and Shadow' moves in a palette stripped back to black and white. White evokes shared experiences of joy, connection, and clarity—moments that feel expansive and illuminated. Black holds the weight of the inward journey: grief, trauma, solitude, and the quiet work of becoming, transformation. The monochrome palette becomes a quiet language—one that invites reflection, intimacy, and sensory engagement.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Keziah Craven
Keziah Craven is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra. Her research explores the intersection of trauma and creative expression, focusing on developing a visual and tactile language of trauma through wearable art. Her practice is interdisciplinary, combining elements of visual art, design, and embodied storytelling. Keziah graduated from the Sculpture Workshop at ANU School of Art & Design with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 2019. Her work has underlying themes of birth and death, domestic abuse, homelessness, trauma and of mapping the human body. Her work varies from large installations to smaller objects, prints and body sculpture including wearable art. Keziah has been a finalist in the ANU School of Art Drawing Prize and the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize. She has exhibited in and around Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne (both in group and solo shows), in Sculpture Bermagui, and online Internationally. She is an active member of the Papermakers of Victoria. In 2023 Keziah was the only finalist from the ACT for the Australian Wearable Art Festival.