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I am fascinated by the visual conventions of street signage and the function of the sign as an informative, yet beautiful image, produced by the correlation of colour and symbol, and its operation at the intersection of both written and visual information. Using paint to produce artworks of gateways, I explore the crossover between what may be considered functional design and fine art. My intention is to adopt the visual conventions of the sign and apply them to my paintings in order to produce works that have multiple capacities. Functioning as objects and as illustrations and as historic visual reminders, the gateway represents a threshold, a symbol for the point of transition between separated spaces, a barrier that invites access.
Keren completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne where she specialised in drawing and printmaking. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions across Melbourne and abroad including Cross Currents; a print exchange between the printmaking students of the VCA and the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) resulting in two exhibitions across Melbourne and Tokyo, Summer Projects VII at Boom Gallery, Geelong, and a number of virtual exhibitions hosted by the Melbourne organisation, Satellite Projects.