Dale Copeland

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]

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

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. She became a 6th Dan black belt in Taekwon-Do in December 2020.

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. 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.
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