Dale Copeland

This article is about the New Zealand artist. For the American academic, see Dale C. Copeland.

Copeland in 2012, after her investiture as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae

Dale Devereux Copeland MNZM (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.[2] 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.

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". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017 – via HighBeam Research.
  2. ^ a b McMurray, Kirsty (4 June 2012). "Quite the prize for queen of real tart". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Dale Copeland". Puke Ariki. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  4. ^ Utiger, Taryn (2 January 2014). "Happiest at home with her treasures". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Apple TART: Virtual Tart meets the Big Apple Sponsored by Visual Arts League - Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center - Absolutearts.com". Absolute Arts. December 2000. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  6. ^ Batten, Yvette (1 April 2016). "International Collage Exhibition and Exchange starts at Percy Thomson Gallery". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Copeland's Artwork Earns Special Award". Taranaki Daily News. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2017 – via Pressreader.
  8. ^ "Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee honours list 2012". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  9. ^ Rilkoff, Matt (28 December 2013). "Beauty in numbers". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  10. ^ Finer, Petra (27 August 2014). "French connection". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  11. ^ Shaskey, Tara (14 December 2015). "Bomb sculpture installed along Coastal Walkway". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  12. ^ Shaskey, Tara (31 May 2017). "Traveled art on display at new city gallery". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  13. ^ Shaskey, Tara (11 April 2017). "Taranaki creatives forfeit clothes for art as they head to Paris for exhibition". Taranaki Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2017.