Dale Copeland Explained

Dale Devereux Copeland (born 1943) is a New Zealand collage and assemblage artist. Copeland's work is about "society's detritus" and reworking "discarded things" into art.[1] Copeland, who is also a community art organiser, is called "the backbone of the Taranaki art scene" by the Taranaki Daily News.[2]

Career

Copeland lives and works in Taranaki.[3] She has a studio filled with found objects connected to her house near Ōkato.[4] Copeland is part of an artist collective in rural Taranaki called Virtual TART, and which shows their work online through the Virtual TART site.[5]

In the late 1990s, Copeland created the International Collage Exhibition and Exchange art show.[6] In 2009, Copeland earned three Special Recognition Merit Awards for her art in the 8th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition.[7]

In 2011, Copeland and other Taranaki artists exhibited their work at the Lincoln Center in New York. The next year, Copeland was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, for services to the arts.[8]

In 2013, Copeland released a book, Complex Numbers in Graphs, which is about her exploration of chaos theory in a visual medium.[9] She and eleven artists showed their work in Paris in November 2014.[10] In 2015, she was involved with the restoration of a naval mine which was installed as a public sculpture in Port Taranaki.[11]

Copeland, and several other Taranaki artists, showed their work in Paris in May 2017.[12] The exhibition was called Art Taranaki – de retour à Paris and shown at Gallery 59, Rue de Rivoli.[13] In 2019 she and 3 others took an exhibition of Taranaki Art to Terre Verte Gallery in Cornwall, UK.At her grading in November 2023, at the age of 80, she became a Taekwon-Do Master.

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Notes and References

  1. Earle. Peggy. 28 January 1999. Cyber Sisters: Two Women a World Apart Find Themselves Drawn Together In Spirit and Creativity Via the Internet. https://web.archive.org/web/20170917075635/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-68436998.html. dead. 17 September 2017. The Virginian-Pilot. HighBeam Research.
  2. Web site: Quite the prize for queen of real tart. McMurray. Kirsty. 4 June 2012. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  3. Web site: Dale Copeland. Puke Ariki. en-NZ. 16 September 2017.
  4. Web site: Happiest at home with her treasures. Utiger. Taryn. 2 January 2014. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  5. Web site: Apple TART: Virtual Tart meets the Big Apple Sponsored by Visual Arts League - Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center - Absolutearts.com. December 2000. Absolute Arts. 16 September 2017.
  6. Web site: International Collage Exhibition and Exchange starts at Percy Thomson Gallery. Batten. Yvette. 1 April 2016. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  7. Web site: Copeland's Artwork Earns Special Award. 11 August 2009. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017. Pressreader.
  8. Web site: Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee honours list 2012 . 4 June 2012 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 6 June 2019.
  9. Web site: Beauty in numbers. Rilkoff. Matt. 28 December 2013. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  10. Web site: French connection. Finer. Petra. 27 August 2014. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  11. Web site: Bomb sculpture installed along Coastal Walkway. Shaskey. Tara. 14 December 2015. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  12. Web site: Traveled art on display at new city gallery. Shaskey. Tara. 31 May 2017. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.
  13. Web site: Taranaki creatives forfeit clothes for art as they head to Paris for exhibition. Shaskey. Tara. 11 April 2017. Taranaki Daily News. 16 September 2017.

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