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| Dale Copeland Born in Taranaki, 1943. B.Sc., Dip.Soc.Sc. and M.A., 1st class Hons in Mathematics. Offered Massey Doctoral Scholarship in Chaos Theory '97. Changed direction to art. Lives at Puniho with painter Paul Hutchinson. Has a 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 Exhibitions | |
| 2004 in preparation: | |
| Banned in the USA | American Library Assoc., USA |
| 2004 | |
| 13th Annual Wallace Art Awards | Auckland |
| The New Alchemists | 3rd Biennial, Reclaimed Materials Touring New Zealand and Australia |
| Guest of honour, 11ème Salon International du Collage Contemporain, Paris France | |
| Le Voyage Imaginaire | Touring exhibition, Canada, USA, New Zealand, France, Germany |
| Inspired by the box man | Surface Gallery, Nottingham |
| Cabinet of Curiosities | Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin |
| The Sum of the Parts | Appalachian State University, NC, USA |
| Assemblage 100 |
Expressions Gallery, Upper Hutt; Real Tart gallery, New Plymouth; Gully Lounge, Auckland |
| 2003 | |
| Assemblage 100 | Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford |
| Postcards from the Edge | Galerie Lelong, New York |
| Real Tarts in K Road | Gully Lounge, Auckland |
| International Collage 2003 | Oder24, Berlin |
| Salon international du collage contemporain | Paris & Sergines, France |
| Lost in the FunHouse | The PumpHouse Gallery, Auckland |
| 2002 | |
| International Collage Exhibition | Kansas State University |
| "TART Melba" | Melbourne |
| "Collage International" | RomFeia Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
| (invited artist for collage symposium and exhibition) | |
| "New Zeal" | Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Australia |
| 2001 | |
| Art Waikato Awards | Hamilton *Finalist* |
| Circus Maximus, Unbearables | ABC No Rio, New York |
| Salon international du collage contemporain | Paris & Sergines, France |
| "The Art of Riding a Camel" | Kina Gallery, New Plymouth |
| The World Through a Pinhole | Geoff Wilson Gallery, Whangarei |
| International Digital Art | UMDNJ, New Jersey, USA |
| 2000 | |
| The Number | College Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France |
| Art Waikato Awards | Hamilton *Finalist* |
| "The Occasional Coherent Thought" | Woodhouse Hill Gallery, Wellington |
| Biennial Portrait Competition | NZ Portrait Gallery *Finalist* |
| Exhibition 2000 | Shomeido Gallery, Tokyo |
| "Remembrance of Things Past" | Taranaki Museum, New Plymouth |
| "Apple TART" | Lincoln Centre, New York |
| 1999 | |
| "Poles Apart at the Antipodes" | Athene Gallery, Greytown |
| Exhibition 1999 | Keio University, Tokyo |
| "Assemblage d'assemblage" | Portfolio Gallery, Auckland |
| "Wonderlands" | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| foCOM2000 | Gallery A3, Moscow |
| 1998 | |
| "tempus fugit, fugit all" | Portfolio Gallery, Auckland |
| Renaissance 2001 | Contemporary Arts Foundation, Harrogate, England |
| "QUINTET" - 5 Taranaki artists | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| "Country Without Borders" | Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York |
| "Through a Glass Darkly" | Athene Gallery, Greytown |
| 1997 | |
| "AVANT GARAGE" | New Plymouth |
| Recent Aquisitions | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Depot Art Award | Devonport, Auckland *Merit Award* |
| "fission chips" | Art Haus, Wellington |
| 1996 | |
| "ENVOYS" | Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland |
| "Through a Glass Darkly" | Portfolio Gallery, Auckland |
| "Remembrance of Things Past" | ART Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1995 | |
| Sculpture Symposium | Corban's Estate, Waitakere, Auckland |
| "A Different Sort of Sacrifice" | Page90 Gallery, Porirua |
| 1994 | |
| The Cake Stall | Egmont Gallery, New Plymouth |
| "Four and Against" tour | New Moon Gallery, Wellington |
| CSA Gallery, Christchurch and Bishop Suter Gallery, Nelson | |
| 1993 | |
| "The Great NZ Wind-Up: Toys as Art Objects" | Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier |
| Wallace Arts Trust Art Awards | Auckland |
| 1992 | |
| "Agenbite of Inwit" | Merilyn Savill Gallery, WEllington |
| 40 Year Exhibition | Mishima, Japan |
| "Activart" | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1991 | |
| "Contra-Dictionary" | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Five Taranaki Artists | Newton Gallery, Auckland |
| "Real and Reality" | Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings |
| Taranaki Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1990 | |
| Goodman Suter Biennale | Suter Gallery, Nelson |
| *Purchase Award* work bought by Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre | |
| "Their View There" | Regional Women's Touring Show |
| Taranaki Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1989 | |
| "Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round | RKS Art, Auckland |
| Telecom Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1988 | |
| TSB Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| *Winner of $1000 main prize* | |
| Goodman Suter Biennale | Suter Gallery, Nelson |
| *Purchase Award* work bought by Dowse Art Museum | |
| "Careful Constructions of Treasured Objects" | Robert McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch |
| 1987 | |
| TSB Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Taranaki Banner Show | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1986 | |
| Goodman Suter Biennale | Suter Gallery, Nelson |
| Renonsense 8 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| TSB Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Sculptural Forms | Crafts Council, Wellington |
| 1985 | |
| "Erotica" | King St Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Renonsense 7 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| TSB Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| "Cut Ups" | King St Gallery, New Plymouth |
| "Blatant Image" | King St Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1984 | |
| Renonsense 5 & 6 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| TSB Craft Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Contemporary Craft | Glassworks Gallery, Inglewood |
| Taranaki Independent Photographers | Brougham St Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1983 | |
| Contemporary Photography | Elam Art School, Auckland |
| Renonsense 4 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| Politics of an Exhibition | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| "Impulses & Responses", Contemporary Jewellery | Goethe Institute, Wellington |
| 1982 | |
| TSB Craft Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Renonsense 2 & 3 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| 1981 | |
| TSB Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| Renonsense 1 | St Josephs, New Plymouth |
| 1980 | |
| Taranaki Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
| 1979 | |
| Taranaki Review | Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth |
Author, publisher and binder of limited editions of handbound books: "Assemblage Art", 1995, IBSN 0-9583372-2-5 "Bookbinding - An Introduction", 1994-98, IBSN 0-9583372-0-9 "The Second Half", 1995, IBSN 0-9583372-4-1 Virtual TART CD-ROM IBSN 0-9583372-7-6 (expanded edition) "The Art of Riding a Camel", 2001, IBSN 0-9583372-8-4 "Assemblage 100", 2003, IBSN 0-9582489-0-7 | |