Dale Copeland

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2024

The Process of Memory How does it work, and how does it fail? As difficult to analyse as this assemblage is difficult to photograph

The Day of the Dead	The Healing Hand

Seen in the Rest Home	What's the word for ....	We are the pawns

Self Portrait	Kings, Commoners, All	Far from the madding crowd

Virginia's Choice	Your Choice is the Child's Future

Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round	Time Runs Out	You're being watched

Damage Control	You voted for THIS?

2023

from under the rubble	The Snake Charmer	Celebration

Dance while you can	Homage to the working man

A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go	Street Scene	Child of War

NOW	Unrequited love	Night Light

Oh ME, Oh MY	The cockatrice - a child's view	The mess of memory

	All that's left of the great OE Travelbags (Two works made for the ABROAD exhibition)
Dance till they drop you

Remember Always	*ego*	The children will blame us

Look at what's just come home again!! Click on any image to read how and why.

Kia Kaha	Doing Time	Manifestations

Play while you can	Time is short

Tread softly.	The last heavy smoker ( with detail )	A found treasure from Korea   NFS

Water under the bridge ( closed and open )   NFS	A History of War

Three small assemblages K, J, and L each 7.5cm (3") square	Till death do us part

Icarus would feel right at home here, now	The Dream	Just when you thought you'd really made it.

Photo by Janine Cook, during the 2023 Taranaki Arts Trail.

2022

First day at the big school	Archetypes of Choice	Enemies of Reason

The BIG TIDY
One far corner.     Before . . . . .	. . . . . and after
The huge clean-up progresses, very very slowly .... now more than halfway around the studio. Stubborn? Who, me? All done now, and back to making things, playing ... feel like dancing in all this space.

Affidavit of Plight	Above, Beyond with details	20 / 20

YES with details	Where one day becomes all days with another view

Poster for my " ... still thinking ..." exhibition and for the one-day workshop which Carl Fairweather and I ran in Hawera, in May, 2022.	The proper poster for the gallery

When they heard about the Second Coming	The love of money is the root of all evil	Even the best memories

2021

Marianne's Brushes

Me and Mine	Ring the bells, the best is behind us.

Remnant of the Big Bang   NFS	I always thought that the path would be clear	Juxtaposition of disparate elements (see the response to the naming request)

From nothing to nowhere	Integrity	Copper Leaves

THINKS - my exhibition which was at the Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford Click here to see the assemblages in the exhibition ... absolutely superb photos by Rhonda Bunyan. or click here to see how the exhibition looked with the assemblages surrounded by the international collage collection. The gallery did an exciting job of hanging this show.

The International Collage Collection

Amongst all your treasures the most precious is time

Hive from the HIVE MIND exhibition at the Village Gallery, Eltham.	Resilience from the exhibition of the same name at the Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford.

A Parting Gift	So little time to fly	No Planet B

Ambition, Hopes & Dreams	Complex Parabola One of the four 3D graphs you get by plotting y=x²   where x and y are complex numbers.

Gift from the TruthSayer	The Kardashians' Anatomy Lesson for Little Girls (now home again)	The Future Will Engulf

Be as good as you can, at what you can. While you can.	From Granny Devereux	Dead Man Dreaming

Taniwha under the Huatoki Bridge	Relic

2020

Wherever you go, there you are	WarMaker	Diminuendo

Philosophy of the Found An edition of 100 handbound books of my work. Written printed and bound during lockdown. All sold now.

Mindfulness	Out of Africa	Gift from the Sea

A Walk Through the Cemetery	Last in the Line

The cockeyed optimist and the inadequate navigator

And a few of my earlier favourites.
A lot more can be seen in the 8 'rooms' of my own site, at www.dalecopeland.co.nz

YOLO (with details)   NFS	The Orphan	The inevitability of mathematics (with details)

Generation Me	Back from the Wars (now home again)	Self Portrait: 5,40,72   NFS

The old woman from Mensa KNOWS what she's losing

From the Psych Ward

Democracy is coming

The one true prophecy	Free will? Yes. Freedom of Choice? No.	The Carousels of Paris

REFLECT COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Media I find junk, see treasure. I keep things for years until they find their place. Life, The Universe, and All That I've been an artist, and exhibited widely, for 50 years. Mid-life career change? I used to be a mathematician, teacher, physicist, computer programmer . . . it feels like another life, another person. I am very fortunate, having so many choices. I live at Puniho in rural New Zealand with my partner, the painter Paul Hutchinson. It's a good life. My works are in the collections of Puke Ariki, The Dowse Art Museum, the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, the Gisborne Museum and Arts Centre, Massey University, the James Wallace Art Trust and the Lessedra International Art Collection. And in private collections. I miss them, these lost treasures.

Photo by Robbii, USA

More of my work, and the books which I make, can be seen on my site at dalecopeland.co.nz

Click here if you'd like to read my CV / biography.

email Dale at dale@tart.co.nz

Or phone 06 752 8126 and leave a message.