karen sole artist napier aotearoa-new zealand
  • Contact+history
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • Prints & Cards
  • ihlara@edges 2019
  • Hot Planet
  • Land Village Fences@Kina 2019
  • 2018 exhibitions
  • Botanical
  • 2014 - 2018
  • 2014-16 Exhibitions
  • Morocco
    • Morocco Dreaming I
    • Morocco Dreaming II
    • Morocco Dreaming III
    • Morocco Dreaming IV: Khenifra Rainy day
    • Morocco Dreaming V
  • Whenua-Moana
  • Specifically Shoreline
  • Totems
    • Totem II and Totem III
  • Blue and Green
  • Sky
  • Urban Lights
  • Photographs
  • 2023 +
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Adorable Future
Acrylic on cotton damask
49 x 49 cm
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WIP
Untitled

Acrylic and Indian ink on wallpaper
133 x 52 cm
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Take Me To The River, and details. 102 x 76 cm Selected for the Hawkes Bay Art Review, opening 19 November - 09 December 2021
Available from the studio
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Overnight, Everything Changed
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas 
150 x 100 cm
SOLD
going to a new home in Parma, Italy
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The Dream That Won't Let You Go
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas
83 x 125 cm
​SOLD 
going to a new home in Parma, Italy
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O For Omicron
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on canvas
61 x 51 cm
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Pink Painting
Acrylic, oil pastel and tissue paper collage on canvas
61 x 31 cm
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Untitled [Botanical]
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on canvas
76 x 26 cm
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Drift
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas
61 x 30 cm
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What If We're Wrong, And Money's Not the Main Thing
Acrylic, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
105 x 52 cm
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Exploring Space With Billionaires
Acrylic, oil pastel, and collage on wallpaper
105 x 52 cm
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Redemption Song
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
100 x 52 cm
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Itinerary, 2021
Acrylic, oil pastel, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
72 x 52 cm
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Untitled
Acrylic, oil pastel, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
52 x 52 cm
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Red Sky
Acrylic, oil pastel & Indian ink on wallpaper
130 x 52 cm
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Spring Feels
Acrylic and oil pastel on wallpaper
52 x 65 cm
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After Rain ll
Acrylic, oil pastel & Indian ink on wallpaper
52 x 55 cm
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Untitled
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(Temporary image)
Acrylic on wallpaper
110 x 51 cm
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War Is...Over?
31 August 2021
Acrylic and oil pastel
31 x 23 cm
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The Dreams Of Cortez
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
31 x 31 cm
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Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 20 cm
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Tell Me About The Sweat Lodge
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft card
30 x 21 cm
​Meditation on indigenous culture
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Even Snow Has Secrets
Acrylic and oil pastel on A3 tracing paper
​On hearing of mass graves of indigenous children in Canada.
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Untitled [Four pieces]
Acrylic and oil pastel & stick on cardboard
36 x 24 cm
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Untitled [Big Sky]
Acrylic, oil stick, and oil pastel on A3 tracing paper
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Untitled [World On Fire]
Acrylic and oil stick on A3 tracing paper
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Pontoon
Acrylic, oil pastel and oil stick on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [Looking At Lines]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [The Same Sun]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Taranaki Cloud Bank
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper 
28 x 28 cm
SOLD
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Threaded Clouds
Acrylic, oil and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Awakino Fog
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Something About China]
Acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick and blue plastic film on Kraft paper
27 x 27 cm
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Untitled [Big red cup of flowers]
Acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick on A3 tracing paper
SOLD
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Untitled [Flowers with cadmium yellow]
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
27 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Vase]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
27 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Delta Hits The Scene
Acrylic and oil pastel on cotton fabric
56 x 46 cm
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D For Delta
Acrylic and oil pastel
28 x 28 cm
​The ongoing rich inspiration of the pandemic
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Untitled [With Copper]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [Garden]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
26 x 28 cm
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Pattern With Gold
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Pattern With Red
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
26 x 28 cm
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The Hook, Line, and Sinker Of It
Acrylic on canvas
​92 x 61 cm
Joyous rage when considering the power and reach of colonialism.
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The Beautiful Experience Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Monster's Going to Get Me Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Hansel and Gretel Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Shopping With Mother Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Forgot My Lines Dream

Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
SOLD 
​and living in Milan
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Float
Mixed media on cotton fabric
51 x 58 cm
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Te Maunga lV
Mixed media on cotton fabric
52 x 52 cm
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Te Maunga
Mixed media on cotton fabric
58 x 51 cm
SOLD
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Clearing
Mixed media on cotton fabric
49 x 51 cm
SOLD
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Sketch For Desire
Acrylic on black album paper
28 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Losing Your Religion
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
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Some Way Out Of Here
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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ANZAC Day painting #3
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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ANZAC Day painting #2
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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Every Year, The Poppies.
ANZAC Day painting #1
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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Ghosts Haunt Us. Ancestors Walk With Us.
Mixed media with collage on canvas
102 x 102 cm
In memory of my father, Thomas Edward Sole, 11 May 1929 - 22 March 2021
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All Roads
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 53 cm
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Forest Clearing
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 55 cm
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You Are My Sunshine
Mixed media on black paper
28 x 26 cm
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Untitled
Mixed media on black paper
27 x 26 cm
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Pink [Botanical]
Mixed media with collage on cotton fabric
55 x 48 cm
SOLD
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After Rain [Botanical]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
​52 x 50 cm
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Untitled [Graphic design, gold]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 55 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Graphic design, copper]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 53 cm
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Untitled [Graphic design, green]
Mixed media on found handmade paper
32 x 32 cm
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Dream It's OK
​Mixed media on found handmade paper
31 x 33 cm
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Binary II 
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 54 cm
​Remembering Alan Turing

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Binary 
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 53 cm
​Remembering Alan Turing

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Ceremonies
Mixed media with collage on cotton fabric
52 x 52 cm
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Calibrating Joy
Mixed media on canvas
102 x 102 cm
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Take Me To The River
Mixed media on canvas
​102 x 76 cm

Selected for exhibition at The Hawkes Bay Art Review September 2021
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QR Code: Never Mind The Static
Mixed media on tissue paper
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QR Code: All In
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Just Sign In
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Clear Messages
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Yellow
​Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Take Me To Your Leader
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
​Botanical
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New Year's Resolution 
Mixed media on black paper
27 x 29 cm

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Bio Box
Mixed media on A4 black paper
​Botanical
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Be Careful Where You Stand
Mixed media on A5 black paper
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​Compromise

Mixed media on A5 black paper
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​The House In Your Dream

Mixed media on A5 black paper
Nothing Left To Lose
Mixed media on A4 black paper
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Consequences 
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
temporary image
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  • Contact+history
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • Prints & Cards
  • ihlara@edges 2019
  • Hot Planet
  • Land Village Fences@Kina 2019
  • 2018 exhibitions
  • Botanical
  • 2014 - 2018
  • 2014-16 Exhibitions
  • Morocco
    • Morocco Dreaming I
    • Morocco Dreaming II
    • Morocco Dreaming III
    • Morocco Dreaming IV: Khenifra Rainy day
    • Morocco Dreaming V
  • Whenua-Moana
  • Specifically Shoreline
  • Totems
    • Totem II and Totem III
  • Blue and Green
  • Sky
  • Urban Lights
  • Photographs
  • 2023 +