Trying to find an old play haunt in Jakobstal. Fighting the wind in Dungeness. Stopping at every stop sign along a single road in Ulpha. Following stray sheep through the fields in Wakaroa Pigeon Bay. Play informs practice; detours become meaningful journeys; reflections lengthen as priorities shift.

Notions of journeying, wandering, trail finding, making paths, occupying space, and creating connections have formed a central conceptual position for Keren and a persistent exercise in relation to the development of new work. Keren’s socially engaged practice has seen her increasingly involved in collaborative works and public art projects, working in conversation and sharing in production to generate outcomes which reflect and respond to community priorities.

Keren is a visual arts practitioner based in Ōtautahi, New Zealand, working across painting, photography, printmaking, drawing, sound, text, video and performance. Keren has a Master of Fine Arts from the Ilam School of Fine Art, Te Whare Wānaga o Waitaha University of Canterbury (Ōtautahi, NZ) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts (London, UK). Keren has exhibited work at the Suter Art Gallery (Nelson, NZ), Trinity Buoy Wharf (London, UK), East Gallery (London, UK), House Gallery (London, UK), Down by the Liffey Gallery (Lincoln, NZ), the Christchurch Arts Festival (Ōtautahi, NZ), Ilam Gallery (Ōtautahi, NZ) and The Miniature Gallery (Lyttelton, NZ).