Works on paper

Works on Paper

  • “Yellow circle portrait” watercolour and acrylic on Arches paper 28×35 cm
  • “Climate change” watercolour and acrylic on Fabriano paper 56x76cm
  • “Moonstruck” watercolour and acrylic on Arches paper 76x56cm
  • “Red Circle Portrait” watercolour and acrylic on fabriano paper 40cmx35cm
  • “Plato’s Stage” 94×140 cm
  • “Flesh” watercolour and acrylic on Arches paper 56×76 cm
  • “Conversations” watercolour and acrylic on Arches paper 56×76 cm
  • “Beige Circle Portrait” watercolour and acrylic on fabriano paper 28×35 cm
  • “Dual” watercolour and acrylic on Arches paper 56 x 76 cm

Vision X

Vision X 

This exhibition, entitled Vision X, aims to bring together previously unseen works by new emerging Irish artists Aileen Murphy, Glenn Fitzgerald, Eleanor McCaughey and Brian Harte among others with more established international artists Thomas Noskowski, Joyce Pensato Norbert  and Schwontkowski. The exhibition focuses on work that teeters on the edge of perception, dreamlike, sometimes awkward abstraction and subversive figuration that take the way we see apart and question our place in the world.

Artists included in the exhibition, Chantal Joffe, Anna Bjerger, Aileen murphy, Eleanor McCaughey, Glenn Fitzgerald, Kristina Huxley, Diana Copperwhite, Norbert Schwontkowski, Thomas Noskowski, Robert Armstrong, Dannielle Tegeder, Danny Rolph, Brian Harte, Marcus Cope, Joyce Pensato, 

Curated by Diana Copperwhite RHA

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Portraits

Portraits

  • Confucius Confused
  • Untitled in yellow Elgin White
  • Seminal Influence
  • Fallen Arch
  • Dark Light
  • Scanner
  • Installation from A Million and One Things, 2015 
  • V
  • Disappearing Into One
  • Disappearing Into One 2
  • Blue Portrait
  • Out Of Mind
  • Vortex Web
  • Roughcut
  • Satellite Screen
  • Somnambulant Shrug
  • Pink Mime
  • Green
  • Premonition
  • Pinkeye
  • Grey
  • Charlie
  • Bea
  • Radiator

Galway International Arts Festival | 2019

Galway International Arts Festival | 2019

For the 2019 edition of Galway International Arts Festival, 126 Artist-run Gallery presents “Reforming” a duo exhibition by acclaimed Irish artist Diana Copperwhite and emerging Irish artist Ciara Barker. Reforming presents an exhibition infused with colour which explores notions of reality, abstraction and our sense of space, while placing two artists at different stages of career together. Admission is free and all are welcome.

“Copperwhite’s work focuses on how the human psyche processes information, and looks at the mechanisms of how we formulate what is real. With her work, she is fully aware that such realities may only hold validity for an instant, and that we are constantly processing and changing what we logically hold as experience and memory. Layering fragmented sources that range from personal memory to science, from media and internet to personal memory, Copperwhite’s canvases become worlds in which the real is unreal and this unreality is in a constant state of reforming.”-Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Artist Ireland, (2011)

  • “Anatomy of time 3”

The wall print (Anatomy of time 3) is made using footage from mobile phone cameras sent by anonymous individuals and some friends in Galway. Taking 30 seconds as my only que, I looked and responded to the short films by quickly drawing the contours and shapes of fleeting images seen to create a composite of abstract pattern. This pattern was then taken, photographed and blown up to creat a 21 foot long x12 foot tall digital print. Essentially taking the tradition of mural painting and bringing its epic proportions back down to the mobile phone.

Diana Copperwhite (b. 1969, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Driven by Distraction, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2016), Depend on the Morning Sun, Thomas Jaeckal Gallery, New York (2016) and A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Last Picture Show w/Mary Heilmann, Chris Ofili, Danny Rolph, Vanessa Jackson, Elio Rodriguez, Jill Levine, Rebecca Smith, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York (2017) and Virtú, inc. Picasso, Giacometti, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Magill and Sean Scully at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland (2017). Copperwhite’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland (Finland), Dublin Institute of Technology and The President of Ireland.