Background
She was born in Taranaki in 1943.
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Dale Copeland
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Bachelor of Science, Dip.Soc.Sc. and Master of Arts, 1st class Honours in Mathematics. Offered Massey Doctoral Scholarship in Chaos Theory "97. Taught Maths and Physics, mostly at New Plymouth Girls High School and Okato College.
Changed direction to art
Lives at Puniho with painter Paul Hutchinson. She has a Fourth Degree Black belt in Taekwon-Do (gained in 2011 at the age of 68).
Copeland has worked in collage, jewellery, book-making, photography and sculpture, but her favoured medium is assemblage or box-art: careful constructions of treasured objects. Copeland"s assemblage artwork has been described as “joy in jetsam, philosophy in flotsam”.
She finds discarded objects and puts them together not as narratives but as encapsulations of the human condition.
“Bricolage” – philosophy in the foundation She runs the annual International Collage Exhibition/Exchange, has written several books, and writes websites for artists, including the Virtual Tart site for Taranaki artists.
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New Zealand