Dale Copeland - Assemblage artist
Born 1943. Educated in Taranaki, dux of New Plymouth Girls' High School.
B. Sc. in maths and physics at Auckland University.
One year travelling in the outback of Australia, one year in London working and doing
research into Carbon Fibre, then teaching Maths, Physics and Computing in Taranaki.
Head of Maths/Science Department at Okato College.
Continued to study extramurally with Massey University, gained B.A., Dip.Soc.Sc. and
M.A. with first class Honours in Mathematics. Offered Massey Doctoral Scholarship for
Ph.D. in Chaos Theory '97.
At age 43 gave up teaching for art.
Lives at Puniho with painter Paul Hutchinson. Has a 3rd Dan black belt in Taekwon-Do.
She has worked in collage, jewellery, book-making, photography, fabric art and
sculpture, but her favoured medium is assemblage, or box art : careful constructions of
treasured objects.
Selected solo shows : (a more complete list of exhibitions can be seen on Dale's site at www.dalecopeland.co.nz)
Cabinet of Curiosities, Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin & ROAR Gallery, Wellington
Travail with a light heart at Durango Arts Center, Colorado, USA
Remembrance of Things Past at Taranaki Museum, 2000.
Assemblage d'Assemblage at Portfolio Gallery in Auckland.
Through a Glass Darkly at Athene Gallery, Greytown.
fission chips at ART HAUS in Wellington.
Through a Glass Darkly at Portfolio Gallery in Auckland.
Remembrance of Things Past at ART Gallery in New Plymouth.
A Different Sort of Sacrifice at PAGE90 in Porirua.
The Agenbite of Inwit at Merilyn Savill Gallery in Wellington.
Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round at RKS Art in Auckland,
Careful Constructions of Treasured Objects at Robert McDougall Gallery in
Christchurch
She has been part of many group art exhibitions, including the three Goodman Suter
Biennales, where she has twice won a gallery purchase awards.
Winner of Professor Jack Richard's award for sculpture at WaX (National women's art exhibition)
and also prize for Overall Supreme Winner. Gisborne, 2007
Winner of Taranaki Review in 1988 & 2007.
Finalist in Art Waikato National Art Award 2000.
Finalist in Annual Wallace Art Awards 2004, 2007, 2008
Lost in the FunHouse, PumpHouse Gallery, Auckland
Participant in the Eco-Art Sculpture
Symposium at Waitakere.
In The Great New Zealand Wind-Up : Toys as Art Objects at the Hawkes Bay
Museum in Napier.
Shared Real and Reality with Heather Busch at Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre.
One of four artists in A Couple of Artistic Pairs show at Govett Brewster Gallery in
New Plymouth.
International group touring shows:
A Book About Death, USA, Mexico, Brazil
Cities-of-Art, Port Moody, BC Canada 2007. New Plymouth, New Zealand 2009.
Your Documents Please, Japan, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Mexico. 2008-9
The New Alchemists, touring New Zealand and Australia 2004-5
Imaginary Voyage, touring Canada, USA, New Zealand, France, Germany 2004-6
Human Artefakts, touring USA, Germany, New Zealand 2006-7
Assemblage 100, touring New Zealand, 2003
International Collage, RomFeia Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2002
Renaissance 2001, Harrogate, England
Apple TART - exhibition of Taranaki art, Lincoln Centre,
New York.
Country Without Borders, Broadway, New York
Physicians and Their Art, University of Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey
From Newts to Goats and Beyond, Lincoln Centre, New York
Exhibition 1999, Tokyo, Japan
L'Exposition 1/2000, Chauny, France
With four other artists took Four and Against to CSA Gallery in
Christchurch and Suter Gallery in Nelson.
foCOM2000, Moscow, Russia
Apple TART, Lincoln Centre, New York
NEW ZEAL, Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Australia
2nd International Symposium of Collage in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
10 Contemporain Collage, Paris, France
Sum of the Parts North Carolina, USA
Voyage Imaginaire Quebec, USA, NZ, France, Germany
Assemblage 100 New Zealand tour
Guest of honour at 11 Contemporain Collage, Paris
She has set up Web pages for her art on the Internet, at http://outofsight.co.nz/Dale
and writes & manages the Virtual TART Internet site for Taranaki ART, at
http://virtual.tart.co.nz
Author, publisher and binder of limited editions of handbound books:
"Elephants and Camels - the art of staying afloat", 2008, IBSN 0-9582489-1-5
"the Copeland Collection 100+ collages from the International Exhibition/Exchange>, 2008, IBSN 978-0-9582489-3-8
"Assemblage Art", 1995, IBSN 0-9583372-2-5
"Bookbinding - An Introduction", 1994-98, IBSN 0-9583372-0-9 (now in 3rd edition)
and "The Second Half", 1995, IBSN 0-9583372-4-1
Virtual TART CD-ROM IBSN 0-9583372-6-8 (expanded edition in preparation)
See these books here.
Featured in: Art New Zealand, issue #51,
100 New Zealand Artists
by Warwick Brown.
L'Art du Collage à l'Aube du Vingt et Unième Siècle by Pierre Jean
Varet, Editions Artcolle , Paris, 2006.
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