Diana Copperwhite
Diana Copperwhite was born in Limerick and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design, followed by two years at National College of Art and Design in Dublin and finally one year at Winchester School of Art and Design in Barcelona. Now based between Dublin and Berlin, her work is focused around the process and practice of painting itself, as well as the theme of ‘memory’, specifically the act of memory rather than specific focus points in time. The result of which is a pragmatic approach to working which creates a subject forever in flux.
Colm Tóibín says of her work in his catalogue essay for Highlanes Gallery that, “she allows the world into her paintings in ways which are at times muffled and subtle and covered over…because she physically likes making paintings, everything is subservient to what the paint will achieve. The work is not - in the way structure is broken or made, in the way images are added or blurred or broken up - a metaphor for anything.”
Among her achievements, she won the Pulse Prize in New York in 2015 and won the AIB Prize in 2007. She was an invited artist in residence at the Josef Albers Foundation in Connecticut in 2012 and was a finalist in the International Painting Prize at the Guasch Coranty Fundacio in Barcelona in 2008. Her work is in a number of important collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Office of Public Works, Dublin; Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin; Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Louth; Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland Islands; Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin and President of Ireland’s Collection, Dublin.
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Colm Tóibín says of her work in his catalogue essay for Highlanes Gallery that, “she allows the world into her paintings in ways which are at times muffled and subtle and covered over…because she physically likes making paintings, everything is subservient to what the paint will achieve. The work is not - in the way structure is broken or made, in the way images are added or blurred or broken up - a metaphor for anything.”
Among her achievements, she won the Pulse Prize in New York in 2015 and won the AIB Prize in 2007. She was an invited artist in residence at the Josef Albers Foundation in Connecticut in 2012 and was a finalist in the International Painting Prize at the Guasch Coranty Fundacio in Barcelona in 2008. Her work is in a number of important collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Office of Public Works, Dublin; Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin; Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Louth; Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland Islands; Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin and President of Ireland’s Collection, Dublin.
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