Cope Art, Shankhill Castle, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
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Elizabeth Cope
Discipline(s): Drawing, Painting,Context(s): Public Art,
Resident in Co. Kilkenny
/// Biography
1970 National College of Art and Design, Dublin1972 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.
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
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Open week at Shankhill Castle for the 2009 Kilkenny Arts Festival, please see website for details
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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
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

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