Past Exhibitions

• LCGA: 28th Annual Open ev+a, Limerick, Ireland, March 13th to May 23rd
• LCGA: Tina O'Connell - January 16th - February 25th 2004
• LCGA: Tjibbe Hooghiemstra - Night Flight - January 16th - February 25th 2004
• LCGA: Helena Gorey - November 7th - December 23rd 2003
• LCGA: Jill Dennis - 'A Floater in My Shadow'
• LCGA: Iontas
• LCGA: Cuisle Poetry festival - 16th-18th October 2003
• LCGA: Lindsay Seers: "You said that without moving your lips"
• LCGA: Of Colour in Craft
• LCGA: Caroline McCarthy - Promise - July 18th - August 24th 2003
• LCGA: McCullough Mulvin Architects - Work 1993 - 2003 - July 18th - August 24th 2003
• LCGA: Michael McLoughlin - Bypass, Shared Designs - July 18th to 31st August 2003
• LCGA: Brian Kennedy - Aphrodite June 11th - July 11th 2003
• LCGA: Denis Farrell - Faith - June 11th - July 11th 2003
• LCGA: 27th Annual Open ev+a, Limerick, Ireland, March 8th to June 1st
• LCGA: Helen O'Leary - The way things are 2000-2002
• LCGA: Ambit by Samuel Walsh
• LCGA: Vivienne Dick, Des Farrell, Richard Slade
• LCGA: Irish Patchwork Society 2002, Celebrating 21 Years Of Traditional & Contemporary Quilts
• LCGA: Jack Donovan - Retrospective Paintings 1959-2004
• LCGA: Tom Fitzgerald - The Ministry of Dust Drawings, Sculpture and Installations
• LCGA: Amy O'Riordan - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Shoot! At The Artist - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Ardent Shelters - July 23rd-August 27th 2004
• LCGA: Corpus - women artists and embodiment - 4th June - 15 July 2004
• LCGA: reCollections - Lady of Lourdes Active Group - 4th June - 15 July 2004

Diana Copperwhite - Blind Spot. July 6th - August 28th 2007

Limerick City Gallery of Art is very pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based, Limerick born artist, Diana Copperwhite. Copperwhite was recently awarded the prestigious AIB artist’s award for an exhibition she is preparing for the West Cork Arts Centre. BLIND SPOT at Limerick City Gallery of Art is both her first museum show and also
her first major exhibition in Limerick.

“Incorporating many levels of awareness from a philosophical critique of narratives of historical nostalgia to the visual fundamentals of a colour card, Copperwhite stridently delves into a subjectivity that art has wrestled with for centuries, by one name or another. Common to all these aspects is a fascinating intuitive scheme, constantly driven forward by her commitment to the medium of paint.”

Niamh Ann Kelly

As a highly competent practitioner familiar with current European painting traditions, Diana Copperwhite combines both a lyrical and soft use of colour in her process of painting, which both portrays and obliterates the subject through manipulating layers of pigment. Copperwhite’s painterly explorations of palettes of colours and light, in oils, pencil drawings and watercolours portray heightened realities in a turned up pastel world that owes as much to the feeling of contemporary digital printing qualities as to the history of painting.

Diana Copperwhite is an artist whose work is concerned primarily with memory. Her subjects are identifiable, sometimes drawing on media images and at other times from her own experiences, but she plays with lighting and colour to create a slightly unreal dreamlike quality. The mood of her paintings is generally lyrical and soft with liquid layered surfaces that create an air of ambiguity. She paints over recognisable images, working and reworking the surface so that objects take on the fluid quality of being remembered rather than frozen in real time.

EVENTS

The exhibition will be opened by Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA on Thursday July 5th at 6.00pm.
D iana Copperwhite in conversation with Pippa Little on Saturday 14th July at 1pm.

BLIND SPOT is in association with the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure featuring an essay by Niamh Ann Kelly.

Biographical Notes

Diana Copperwhite was born in Limerick and lives and works in Dublin. She studied at Limerick School of Art and Design, the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona. She is the 2007 recipient of the AIB Art Award. Recent exhibitions include In a certain light, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, June 2006, Midnight, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2005, and Galleri Kakelhallen, Aland, Finland, 2001.

For further information please contact artgallery@limerickcity.ie