Diana Copperwhite

DIANA COPPERWHITE (b 1969)

Painting for DIana Copperwhite is a means of systematizing information, which she describes as "giving the unseen world visual form." Derived from her lifelong interest in chemistry and physics, she visualises the canvas as a kind of "notational system". Her distinctive, undulating, kinetic streaks of colour appear at once autonomous, like light through a prism, and diagrammatic, as if mapping and charting forces invisible to the naked eye.

Diana Copperwhite is one of Ireland’s leading abstract painters. She received her Diploma in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design in 1992, before completing her undergraduate at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1994 and a Masters at Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona in 2000. She has since exhibited widely internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Onomatopeia, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, and Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda (2023); and Driven by Distraction, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2016). Notable group exhibitions include Shelter, National Gallery of Ireland (2023); It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland, (2023); The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, (2022); Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia, (2018); Virtú, Hunt Museum, Limerick, (2017); and The Art of a Nation, Mall Galleries, London, (2015).

Diana Copperwhite first showed with Flowers Gallery in 2022, having been selected by Sean Scully for his curated show celebrating Irish and British talent Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland. She lives and works in Dublin.