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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 Winchestor School of Art, Barcelona in 2000.  Diana is a tutor at the National College of Art and Design,Dublin.  Her work is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland, and also in collections in the United States, Europe and Australia.

Diana Copperwhite, born 1969 in Limerick, studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design from 1987-92, received a BA in painting at the National college of Art and Design, Dublin and went on to do an MFA at the Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona.

Copperwhite is engaged with a sustained conceptual exploration of memory and abstraction. Using identifiable subjects, and sometimes drawing on media images, she plays with light and colour to create slightly unreal dreamlike and transitory compositions. The mood of her work is generally lyrical, creating an air of ambiguity of memories transformed in the unceasing passage of time.  In a most unique capacity, she works over recognizable l images, working and reworking their surface and adding rich layers, so that objects are transported in an entirely new direction into a fluid visual quality of being remembered, actually reimagined in the most singular vibrant ways.

She has exhibited extensively in Ireland, including solo presentations of her work at Royal Hibernian Academy, Limerick City Art Gallery, West Cork Arts Centre, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery.  Her overseas exhibitions include Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France – in conjunction with the AIB Prize. In 2013 she started showing in New York and Miami with Thomas Jaeckel.

In 2012 she was a resident artist at the Josef Albers Foundation Connecticut, USA.  She was a finalist in the Guasch Coranty Fundacio Painting Prize, Centre Cultural Metropolita Tecia Sala, Barcelona (2008) and was winner of the AIB Art Prize (2007).  Her work is in public collections including: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland. International Red Cross Netherlands, and private collections in the USA, Australia and Europe.

 

EDUCATION

1999-2000 Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona, MA European Fine Art
1992-94 National College of Art & Design, BA Hons painting
1987-92 Limerick School of Art & Design, NCEA Diploma Painting

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 PULSE NYC, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
2014 Shadowland 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
2013 Loose Ends, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2013 Solo Booth at VOLTA  New York, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2011 An Island from the day before, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 2009 perfect near miss, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2011 Eclipse of a title, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda
2008 Eclipse of a title, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, eclipse of a title, West Cork Arts Centre
2007 BLIND SPOT, Limerick City Art Gallery * 2006 In a certain light, Kevin Kavanagh , Dublin * 2005 Midnight, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2001 Galleri Kakelhallen, Aland, Finland *
2000 Panorama Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona
1998 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1996 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 Context Art Miami, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
2014 Context Art Miami, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
2014 PULSE NYC, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
2014 Two Person show with Danny Rolph, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council-60 Years of Supporting the Arts Crawford Art Gallery, Cork*
Anna Bjerger, Diana Copperwhite and Oliver Comerford, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Painting Now, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Making Familiar; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, curated by James Merrigan and
Group show and Symposium: Temple Bar Gallery
VOLTA 8 Basel, Switzerland
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Temporary public Art Commission*
The Mind was Dreaming, the world was its Dream, Diana Copperwhite, Michael Kalmbach & Hiraki Sawa, Curated by Jacqui McIntosh, Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland *

2011-
The Fold, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow*
New Works Visiting Artists, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin *

2010-
Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Regarding Painting, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
The Marianbad Palace, Haroon Mirza, Diana Copperwhite, Laura Buckley, Jorge de la Garza, Alicja Kwade and Ian Monroe, Highlanes Gallery and Driochead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival,
curated by Jacqui McIntosh
Abundance, Limerick City Gallery of Art

2009-
Above the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Alchimie – Multiples – Papiers, Françoise Besson, Lyon, curated by Michael Woolworth, Lyon Biennale * Visiting Artists, 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
International Painting Prize, Guasch Coranty Fundacio, Tecla Sala, Barcelona *

2007-
Presence, Limerick City Gallery of Art
The Big Store, curated by Alan Butler & Rayne Booth, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Group show, curated by Martin Gale Fenton Gallery, Cork
Invited artist, RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin *

2006-
Other Visions, curated by Aidan Dunne, Art Critic, The Irish Times, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2005-
A Moment In Time, Temple Bar Gallery
Reality Show, curated by Gemma Tipton, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
Group Show, From the Liberties to Parramatta, University of Western Sydney, Australia

2000-
Aqui/alli, Can Felipe, Poblenou Barcelona

1998-
E+va, Exhibition of Visual Art, curated by Jeanne Greenberg, Limerick City Gallery of Art * Fantastic Overload, Rubicon Gallery Dublin