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Final Essay - Unravelling A Feminine Line: The Art of Undoing, Reclaiming and Redefining.
November 18, 2025
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Final Essay - Unravelling A Feminine Line: The Art of Undoing, Reclaiming and Redefining.
November 18, 2025
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KAREN COVIC, Shroud, 2024

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November 18, 2025
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September Oral Presentation
November 17, 2025
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September Oral Presentation
November 17, 2025
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KAREN COVIC, Tapis 2, Sept 2025

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November 17, 2025
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Lit Review 4 - The Value of Painting: Notes on Unspecificity, Indexicality, and Highly Valuable Quasi-Persons - Isabelle Graw
November 16, 2025
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Lit Review 4 - The Value of Painting: Notes on Unspecificity, Indexicality, and Highly Valuable Quasi-Persons - Isabelle Graw
November 16, 2025
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November 16, 2025
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(my) Notes on (How to make a) Painting
November 16, 2025
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(my) Notes on (How to make a) Painting
November 16, 2025
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When ‘real life’ takes over

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November 16, 2025
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Lit Review 3 - Reassembling Painting - David Joselit
November 15, 2025
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Lit Review 3 - Reassembling Painting - David Joselit
November 15, 2025
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Julie Mehretu, Empirical Construction, Istanbul, 2003, ink and acrylic on canvas, 10 x 15’

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November 15, 2025
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Lit Review 2 - March 2025
November 14, 2025
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Lit Review 2 - March 2025
November 14, 2025
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Agnes Martin, ‘Little Sister’, 1962

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November 14, 2025
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Lit Review 1 - March, 2025
November 14, 2025
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Lit Review 1 - March, 2025
November 14, 2025
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Book cover detail from Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay

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November 14, 2025
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Studio progress - DEMO "Three Weavers: Penelope, Arachne, Philomela."
November 14, 2025
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Studio progress - DEMO "Three Weavers: Penelope, Arachne, Philomela."
November 14, 2025
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Three Weavers: Penelope, Arachne, and Philomela.

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November 14, 2025
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Studio progress - DEMO "Palimpsest"
November 14, 2025
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Studio progress - DEMO "Palimpsest"
November 14, 2025
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KAREN COVIC, Palimpsest, 2025

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November 14, 2025
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Oral Presentation feedback - takeaways
November 11, 2025
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Oral Presentation feedback - takeaways
November 11, 2025
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Work in Progress, unprimed canvas.

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November 11, 2025
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Pegs
November 11, 2025
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Pegs
November 11, 2025
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Peg Tea

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November 11, 2025
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Ideas for the Final exhibition
November 4, 2025
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Ideas for the Final exhibition
November 4, 2025
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Ruth Buchanan, He ārai whakapapa, he matapihi ki te ao | Priorities, whakapapa | Or, Door, window, world…

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November 4, 2025
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Ann Hamilton 'Indigo Blue' 1991
October 31, 2025
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Ann Hamilton 'Indigo Blue' 1991
October 31, 2025
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October 31, 2025
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Most Certainly NOT Waiting
October 31, 2025
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Most Certainly NOT Waiting
October 31, 2025
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Most Certainly Not Waiting…..

Carol Ann Duffy, “Penelope”, The World’s Wife : Poems.

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October 31, 2025
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Eva Hesse, Contingent, cheesecloth, fibreglass, latex, 1968.
October 30, 2025
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installation ideas
October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025
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Image 2.jpeg
October 30, 2025
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Spiders - Arachne - Louis Bourgeois inspired
October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025
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Work Ethic by Helen Molesworth, The Pensylvania State University Press, 2003.
October 30, 2025
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Work Ethic by Helen Molesworth, The Pensylvania State University Press, 2003.
October 30, 2025
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

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October 30, 2025
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Atlantic Wall, ink and acrylic on canvas - 2008/9
October 30, 2025
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Julie Mehretu artist
October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025
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A Feminist Retelling of Homer's World
October 30, 2025
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A Feminist Retelling of Homer's World
October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025
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Leo Steinberg - excerpt from Other Criteria, The Flatbed Picture Plane.
October 29, 2025
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Leo Steinberg - excerpt from Other Criteria, The Flatbed Picture Plane.
October 29, 2025
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Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955

Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports.

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October 29, 2025
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Eva Hesse
October 29, 2025
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Eva Hesse
October 29, 2025
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October 29, 2025
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September seminar - Exhibition
October 28, 2025
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September seminar - Exhibition
October 28, 2025
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Nappe 2 & 3, spray paint, acrylic, dye on canvas

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October 28, 2025
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Cycles and Seasons - Cy Twombly. Essay by Tacita Dean
October 28, 2025
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Cycles and Seasons - Cy Twombly. Essay by Tacita Dean
October 28, 2025
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Edited by Nicolas Serota, 2008

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October 28, 2025
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How to Make a Painting - Studio progress September 2025
October 27, 2025
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How to Make a Painting - Studio progress September 2025
October 27, 2025
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October 27, 2025
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Jahnne Pasco-White
October 26, 2025
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Jahnne Pasco-White
October 26, 2025
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October 26, 2025
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Grids - Rosalind Krauss, 1979
October 20, 2025
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Grids - Rosalind Krauss, 1979
October 20, 2025
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October 20, 2025
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Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait (Red Eye), 2021, lithographic ink, acrylic, oil, charcoal, turmeric, sea silt, 1050 x 1130mm
October 19, 2025
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Anoushka Akel
October 19, 2025
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October 19, 2025
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The City and the Psyche: Painting Now - Hugo Koha Lindsay and Julian McKinnon
October 19, 2025
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The City and the Psyche: Painting Now - Hugo Koha Lindsay and Julian McKinnon
October 19, 2025
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October 19, 2025
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Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly 14 Feb 2024
October 19, 2025
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Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly 14 Feb 2024
October 19, 2025
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October 19, 2025
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The Story of Art - Without Men, Katy Hessel, (2022) Introduction
October 18, 2025
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The Story of Art - Without Men, Katy Hessel, (2022) Introduction
October 18, 2025
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October 18, 2025
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The Myth of Philomela and T.S. eliot’s “The Waste Land”
The Myth of Philomela and T.S. eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Philomela and Procne, Roman wall fresco, 1st century CE. Fresco.

National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

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Karen CovicSeptember 1, 2025
Studio Progress August 2025
Studio Progress August 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicAugust 20, 2025
Te Uru exhibition - Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936)
Te Uru exhibition - Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936)

Detail from Canone Aureo, 2016

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AssignmentsKaren CovicJuly 2, 2025
Exhibition Statement - July Seminar 2025
Exhibition Statement - July Seminar 2025
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Studio Progress June 2025
Studio Progress June 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 28, 2025
Hugo Koha Lindsay, Mineral Spirit, Envy Gallery, Wellington, 19 June - 19 July 2025.
Hugo Koha Lindsay, Mineral Spirit, Envy Gallery, Wellington, 19 June - 19 July 2025.

Hugo Koha Lindsay

Script no 8. reordered and annotated, 2025

graphite compound and synthetic polymer on cotton duck

1390 x 1520mm

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Karen CovicJune 25, 2025
Artist of Interest - Sally Tennent-Brown
Artist of Interest - Sally Tennent-Brown
AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 23, 2025
Studio progress - June 2025
Studio progress - June 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 11, 2025
Tacita Dean - Why Cy?, 2010

From the book Why Cy?, by Tacita Dean

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AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 11, 2025
Studio Progress May-June 2025
Studio Progress May-June 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 9, 2025
Aotearoa Art Fair - May 2025
Aotearoa Art Fair - May 2025

Hugo Koha Lindsay

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AssignmentsKaren CovicJune 3, 2025
Sewing Machine drawing - May studio time
Sewing Machine drawing - May studio time
AssignmentsKaren CovicMay 19, 2025
Gus Fisher exhibition - Having it all, all, all
AssignmentsKaren CovicApril 28, 2025
Seminar - April/Autumn 2025
Seminar - April/Autumn 2025
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Studio Progress - March/April 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicApril 13, 2025
Studio visit Dan Arps and Glen Snow March 6th & March 17th, 2025
Studio visit Dan Arps and Glen Snow March 6th & March 17th, 2025

Judith Scott, Untitled.

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AssignmentsKaren CovicMarch 6, 2025
Studio Progress - February 2025
Studio Progress - February 2025
AssignmentsKaren CovicMarch 5, 2025
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - Linda Nochlin, 1971.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - Linda Nochlin, 1971.
AssignmentsKaren CovicMarch 5, 2025
Vannier, Charlotte. Threads: Contemporary Embroidery Art, 2019 - incorporating stitch and text in my work
Vannier, Charlotte. Threads: Contemporary Embroidery Art, 2019 - incorporating stitch and text in my work
AssignmentsKaren CovicFebruary 25, 2025
Art Gallery Lecture - ‘Threads of Modernism - Ilse Von Randow’ Kathryn Tsui
Art Gallery Lecture - ‘Threads of Modernism - Ilse Von Randow’ Kathryn Tsui
AssignmentsKaren CovicFebruary 24, 2025
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