Dale Copeland
New Zealand collage and assemblage artist (born 1943)
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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.