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]
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.
Tara Donovan ) is an American sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her large-scale installations, sculptures, drawings, and prints utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation. Known for her commitment to process, she has earned acclaim for her ability to exploit the inherent physical characteristics of an object in order to transform it into works that generate unique perceptual phenomena and atmospheric effects. Her work has been conceptually linked to an art historical lineage that includes Postminimalism and Process artists such as Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Richard Serra, and Robert Morris, along with Light and Space artists such as Mary Corse, Helen Pashgian, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell.
Wanda Koop is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-born American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, she has lived and established her career in New York City for more than twenty years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power.
Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist associated with the New York School. Her first contact with the New York City avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930s and then brought to New York when France fell to the Nazis. The great turning point in Ryan's development occurred after the war, in 1948. She was 57 years old when she saw the collages of Kurt Schwitters at the Rose Fried Gallery, in New York City, in 1948. She right away dedicated herself to this newly discovered medium. Since Anne Ryan was a poet, according to Deborah Solomon, in Kurt Schwitters’s collages “she recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets – discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space.” When six years later Ryan died, her work in this medium numbered over 400 pieces.
Penny Slinger, sometimes Penelope Slinger, is a British-born American artist and author based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography, film and sculpture. Her work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism. Her work explores the nature of the self, the feminine and the erotic.
Rosalyn Drexler is an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Although she has had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps best known for her pop art paintings and as the author of the novelization of the film Rocky, under the pseudonym Julia Sorel. Drexler currently lives and works in New York City, New York.
New Plymouth Girls' High School is a girls' state secondary school in Strandon, New Plymouth, New Zealand. The school separated from New Plymouth High School in 1914, leaving New Plymouth Boys' High School on the old site.
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary art museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery receives core funding from the New Plymouth District Council. Govett-Brewster is recognised internationally for contemporary art.
Isabel McLaughlin, was a Modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist. She specialized in landscapes and still life and had a strong interest in design.
Gladys Maccabe, MBE HRUAFRSA MA(Hons)ROI was a Northern Irish artist, journalist and founder of The Ulster Society of Women Artists.
Howardena Pindell is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the intersecting issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork; she has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art."
Lubaina Himid is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.
Martine Syms is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in publishing, video, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on identity and the portrayal of the self in relation to themes such as feminism and Black culture. This is often explored through humour and social commentary. Syms coined the term "conceptual entrepreneur" in 2007 to characterize her practice.
The Quin is a luxury hotel in New York City. It is located on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, two blocks south of Central Park.
Monica Romaine Brewster was a New Zealand arts patron and women's rights advocate. She is best known as the founding benefactor of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
June Clark is a Toronto-based artist working in photography, sculpture and collage. Formerly known as June Clark-Greenberg, her autobiographical works explore issues of history, memory and identity through reflections on her Harlem childhood and subsequent migration to Canada as a young adult.
Sylvia Grace Siddell, Lady Siddell was a New Zealand painter, etcher, and screen-printer, based in Auckland.
Ai-Da is the world's first robot art system to be embodied as a humanoid robot. Completed in 2019, Ai-Da is a robot incorporating algorithms from Computer Graphics and artificial intelligence that makes drawings, painting, and sculptures. It is named after Ada Lovelace. The robot gained international attention when it demonstrated a capacity to draw people from sight with a pencil using its robot arm and cameras in its eyes.
Elizabeth Gower is an Australian abstract artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She is best known for her work in paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages, drawn from her sustained practice of collecting urban detritus.
Whero O Te Rangi Bailey was a New Zealand Māori weaver and textile artist. She was a teacher at New Plymouth Girls' High School as well as a counsellor and a member of the Māori Women's Welfare League. Bailey was a member of Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa. In 2000 she was awarded the Queen's Service Order. Her master weaver status was formally acknowledged when she was appointed to the Kāhui Whiritoi group of Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa. A large outdoor mural depicting Bailey can be found in Christchurch.
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