An exploration of materiality,
The tussle between freedom and control,
The act of making a mark.
ABOUT
Karen Covic is a contemporary artist based in New Zealand. Originally from UK, she relocated with her husband and young family in 2012. Before leaving UK she attended UCL’s Slade School of Art and this confirmed her love of painting. She has a space with ‘Studio 6 Artists’ in Sunday School Buildings in downtown Auckland and is a member of the Railway Street Studio, an artist run exhibition space. She is currently studying for her MFA at Whitecliffe.
ARTWORK
As a process driven artist, her primary interest was with how materials respond to a variety of surfaces using different methods of application. There is an intention to encourage the work to create itself by allowing the materials to flow freely and for her to resist intervention. Although she approaches each canvas with out obvious planning, this is not entirely possible as myriad sources of information feed into each work. Her underlying interest are with our internal landscapes, what makes us who we are, the experiences and the events that have shaped our characters, both good and bad. If we could penetrate through to those vibrant, tangled environments; what would they look like. She is currently studying Psychology at University as well as her MFA. The two areas of study being intertwined.
Mark Making, line and gesture,
Colours Merging, flowing and fading,
threads unravelling and coming undone.
