Contact Details
info@elizabethcope.com
Visit my Website
Cope Art, Shankhill Castle, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
hit + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrows to navigate

  [ Print this Map ]

Disclaimer Notice:
The question of suitability and/or ability of any creative practitioners included in this directory to provide services is a matter entirely for the party engaging the creative practitioner(s) and no investigation in this regard has been made by Carlow County Council, Kilkenny County Council, Waterford County Council, Wexford County Council or Wicklow County Council.


Elizabeth Cope

Elizabeth Cope

Discipline(s): Drawing, Painting,
Context(s): Public Art,

Resident in Co. Kilkenny

/// Biography

1970 National College of Art and Design, Dublin

1972 Travels in Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Iran

1972 - 74 Sir John Cass School of Art, Whitechapel, London

1974 - 77 Chelsea School of Art, Fine Art, Chelsea
1997, Six months in France

1999 Sojourn, New York (Oct/Dec)

2000 Kinny Park Complex, Glasgow, Studio of Ian McColl

2002 Sojourn, New Mexico and West Texas

2003 Sojourn, Egypt and Sinai Desert

2005 Sojourn Austrailia & New Zealand

2005 - 06 City and Guilds College of Art, MA Fine Art, Kennington, London



Artist Practising from : since before 1970
"A born handler of paint and a sensitive colourist" - Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, 20 June 1981.

Kilkenny based artist, Elizabeth Cope, is best known as a painter of bright colourful pictures.

She paints spontaneous, spirited still-lifes, views of interiors, animals, portraits, and landscapes.

Elizabeth Cope has exhibited widely, in Ireland and abroad, and her paintings are held in a number of important public and private collections.

/// News

Andrew Coram Invites you to an exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Cope,
Beedell Coram
86 Commercial Street
London E1 6LY

Opening: Thursday, 29th of October from 5pm
Exhibition continues until Sunday 15th of November
RSVP: andrew.coram@btinternet.com / 07981559601
___________________
Open week at Shankhill Castle for the 2009 Kilkenny Arts Festival, please see website for details
________________

AWARDS

2001 Grant for Mexican Exhibition awarded by Cultural Relations Committee Dept. of Foreign Affairs, by the Minister of F.F. Mr Brian Cowen T.D.

2000 Travel award to Boston

2000 artist-in-Residence Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

2003 Invitee, Dallas Museum of Art, Beaux Arts, Dallas

2001 Invitee to Helsinki Chart Ball Helsinki

1997- 98 Trocaire Artist-in-Residence, Central America

1994 Trocaire Artist-in-Residence, Somalia

1994 Arts Council Travel Bursary to Somalia

1994 Sunday Times Sponsorship to Somalia

1994 Galtee Deercare, Mitchelstown, Cork - Sponsorship to Somalia

1992- 93 Travel Award to Zurich

1987 First Prize in ''Drawing the Line'' Competition for South East Region sponsored by An Bork Gais and grant aided by Arts Council

1982 French Government Grant to Aix-en-Provence, France

1974 Spanish Government Grant (from London) to Segovia and Madrid