Diana Copperwhite
, Irish, b.1969
Title
ShapeshifterDate2016
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
175 x 235 cm
Credit LinePurchased, partial gift from the Artist, 2019
Object numberNGI.2019.89
DescriptionCopperwhite's work focuses on how the human psyche processes information, and looks at the mechanisms of how we formulate what is real. With her work, she is fully aware that such realities may only hold validity for an instant, and that we are constantly processing and changing what we logically hold as an experience and memory.Layering fragmented sources that range from personal memory to science, from media and internet to personal memory, Copperwhite's canvases become worlds in which the real is unreal and this unreality is in a constant state of reforming.
ProvenancePurchased, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, partial gift from the Artist, 2019Exhibition HistoryPrism: The Art and Science of Light, Glucksman, Cork, 1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019