Keziah Craven is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary visual artist and PhD candidate at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on creating a visual and tactile language of trauma, using embodied storytelling to translate lived experience into sculptural form through wearable art and performance. Her practice engages themes of birth and death, domestic abuse, homelessness, trauma, and the mapping of the human body, spanning large installations, intimate objects, prints, and body based sculpture.
Keziah graduated with First Class Honours from the ANU School of Art & Design in 2019. She has exhibited in both solo and group shows across Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne, in Sculpture Bermagui, and online internationally. She has been a finalist in the Australian Wearable Art Festival, the ANU School of Art Drawing Prize, and the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize. She is an active member of Papermakers of Victoria, Textile Art Community Art Space, Naarm Textile Collective, and Regional Arts Victoria. Craven has been selected as one of thirty four finalists in this year’s upcoming Paper on Skin Gala in Tasmania.