Diana Copperwhite

www.dianacopperwhite.com

Copperwhite is an artist whose work is concerned primarily with memory. Her subjects are identifiable, sometimes drawing on media images and at other times from her own experiences, but she plays with lighting and colour to create a slightly unreal dreamlike quality. The mood of her paintings is generally lyrical and soft with liquid layered surfaces that create an air of ambiguity. She paints over recognisable images, working and reworking the surface so that objects that take on the fluid quality of being remembered rather than frozen in real time.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Francoise Besson, Lyon (forthcoming)
2009 perfect near miss , Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
● eclipse of a title, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
● eclipse of a title, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda.
2008 eclipse of a title, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork.
2007 BLIND SPOT, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick.
2006 In a certain light, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, June 2006.
2005 Midnight, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
2001 Galleri Kakelhallen, Aland, Finland.
2000 Panorama Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona.
1998 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Solstice, Arts Centre Navan, Co. Meath (forthcoming)
2010 Graphic Studio Dublin's 50th anniversary, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (forthcoming)
● Regarding Painting , Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
●Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
●Drogheda Arts Festival ,curated by Jacqui McIntosh
●The Marienbad Palace, Highlane's Gallery, Drogheda
● Abundance, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2009 About the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
● Alchimie – Multiples – Papiers, , curated by Michael Woolworth, Lyon Biennale
● Visiting Artist, Graphic Studio Gallery
● To Have & Have not, curated by Gemma Tipton, Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
2008 Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
● Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
● Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize, Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, Barcelona.
2007 PRESENCE, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
●The Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
●Group show, selected by Martin Gale, Fenton Gallery, Cork.
●Invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
●ARCO ‘07 Projects, The Future is Female, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
2006 Invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
●Other Visions, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
2005 A Moment In Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
● Group Show, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
2000 Aqui/alli, Can Felipe, Poblenou Barcelona.
1998 Artissima 99, Turin, Italy.
E+va, Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
Fantastic Overload, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.

AWARDS
Finalist, International Painting Prize, Guasch Coranty Fundacion, Barcelona, 2008
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Project Residency, Dublin, 2008
Winner of 2007 AIB Prize

COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Banks, Arts Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works, The President of Ireland, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Bank of Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Jefferson Smurfit, KPMG, Arthur Andersen Plc, International Red Cross Netherlands, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland and several private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France, America and England.

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