BIOGRAPHY

Diana Copperwhite studied Fine Art Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She completed an MFA at Winchester School of Art, Barcelona in 2000. Diana is a tutor at the National College of Art and Design Dublin.

In her paintings, Copperwhite explores the relationship between colours, gestures, figuration, and representation, harmonising different visual strategies on the canvas. Copperwhite, who is based in Dublin, amalgamates images from the internet, photographs, and real life, unifying these sources in paintings that critically assess the medium’s ability to represent images, sensations, and ideas. “Painting is so physical but has the potential to do something very different to other media. … I think that aspects of technology are almost hypnotic and trance-like and this creates a space in my paintings that gives rise to what you might consider the psychedelic.”

Copperwhite was elected a member of Aos Dana in 2021, and her work is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland, and also in many collections in the United States, Europe and Australia.