KEZIAH CRAVEN

Aggregated Adornments: From Road to Body

21 - 30 July 2023, CCAS Manuka

Keziah Craven’s current work explores sculptural wearable art, and has been selected as the only finalist from the ACT for the Australian Wearable Art Festival later this year in QLD.

This series of work was inspired by pushing the boundaries of what materials we consider as treasurable and what we dispose of. During Craven’s regular daily commutes she noticed the vast debris discarded by the roadside. Setting herself a parameter of only black objects and materials, the collecting began.

Craven has gathered objects and materials such as chair parts, tyres, tubes, a flyscreen, rubber, hard and soft plastics, tubing, fabric, metal, mesh and glass. In these pieces she draws attention to their fascinating forms, textures and alters the possibilities of what is so readily discarded.

Inspired by artists such as Marjorie Schick, Mona Hatoum, Louise Bourgeois, Nick Cave and Yayoi Kusama, Craven’s art practice looks at pushing the boundaries of the everyday as fine art materials, and questions the scale of accessorising.  

Image: Keziah Craven Frail (detail) 2023