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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nov 11, 2025
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Pegs
Nov 11, 2025
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Pegs
Nov 11, 2025
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Peg Tea

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Nov 11, 2025
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Ideas for the Final exhibition
Nov 4, 2025
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Ideas for the Final exhibition
Nov 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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Nov 4, 2025
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Ann Hamilton 'Indigo Blue' 1991
Oct 31, 2025
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Ann Hamilton 'Indigo Blue' 1991
Oct 31, 2025
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Oct 31, 2025
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Most Certainly NOT Waiting
Oct 31, 2025
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Most Certainly NOT Waiting
Oct 31, 2025
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Most Certainly Not Waiting…..

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

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

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Oct 30, 2025
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Atlantic Wall, ink and acrylic on canvas - 2008/9
Oct 30, 2025
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Julie Mehretu artist
Oct 30, 2025
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Oct 30, 2025
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A Feminist Retelling of Homer's World
Oct 30, 2025
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A Feminist Retelling of Homer's World
Oct 30, 2025
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Oct 30, 2025
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Leo Steinberg - excerpt from Other Criteria, The Flatbed Picture Plane.
Oct 29, 2025
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Leo Steinberg - excerpt from Other Criteria, The Flatbed Picture Plane.
Oct 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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Oct 29, 2025
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Eva Hesse
Oct 29, 2025
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Eva Hesse
Oct 29, 2025
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Oct 29, 2025
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September seminar - Exhibition
Oct 28, 2025
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September seminar - Exhibition
Oct 28, 2025
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Nappe 2 & 3, spray paint, acrylic, dye on canvas

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

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Oct 28, 2025
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How to Make a Painting - Studio progress September 2025
Oct 27, 2025
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How to Make a Painting - Studio progress September 2025
Oct 27, 2025
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Oct 27, 2025
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Jahnne Pasco-White
Oct 26, 2025
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Jahnne Pasco-White
Oct 26, 2025
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Oct 26, 2025
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Grids - Rosalind Krauss, 1979
Oct 20, 2025
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Grids - Rosalind Krauss, 1979
Oct 20, 2025
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Oct 20, 2025
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Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait (Red Eye), 2021, lithographic ink, acrylic, oil, charcoal, turmeric, sea silt, 1050 x 1130mm
Oct 19, 2025
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Anoushka Akel
Oct 19, 2025
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Oct 19, 2025
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The City and the Psyche: Painting Now - Hugo Koha Lindsay and Julian McKinnon
Oct 19, 2025
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The City and the Psyche: Painting Now - Hugo Koha Lindsay and Julian McKinnon
Oct 19, 2025
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Oct 19, 2025
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Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly 14 Feb 2024
Oct 19, 2025
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Marion Barthelme Lecture: Jenny Saville on Cy Twombly 14 Feb 2024
Oct 19, 2025
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Oct 19, 2025
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The Story of Art - Without Men, Katy Hessel, (2022) Introduction
Oct 18, 2025
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The Story of Art - Without Men, Katy Hessel, (2022) Introduction
Oct 18, 2025
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Oct 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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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
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Gus Fisher exhibition - Having it all, all, all
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Seminar - April/Autumn 2025
Seminar - April/Autumn 2025
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Studio Progress - March/April 2025
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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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