‘When she was a child, Diana Copperwhite’s father, a science teacher, showed her how a prism worked. This breaking down of white into pure colour – the refracted light revealing each individual shade of the rainbow – stayed with the artist.

Looking at her work, this offers a major hint at her painterly motivations. Copperwhite’s work is frequently preoccupied with light, and interested in what’s beyond the visible spectrum. In a new show The Only Thing is the Everything, the artist cites an interest in the building blocks of Fibonacci sequence, recognising that “while there’s structure and order in the universe, there is also chaos”.

Scientific elements hover around several of the pieces, not just thematically but in their construction, particularly with the spectral bands of colour so synonymous with Copperwhite’s oeuvre. In the new pieces, they resemble both technological glitches and something ghostly or otherworldly.’

Extract from Accompanying Text written by Sinéad Gleeson.

Diana Copperwhite lives and works in Dublin and London. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Elegant Gesture, Liliane Tomasko and Diana Copperwhite, Day 01. Gallery, Sydney (2025), ONOMATOPOEIA, solo exhibition, Flowers Gallery, London (2024), Born in the Echos, Howard Hodgkins and Diana Copperwhite, Day 01. Gallery, Sydney (2024), Sounding of Silhouettes, Solo exhibition, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2023), ONOMATOPOEIA, Solo exhibition, Galway International Arts Festival, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Highlanes Municipal Gallery (2023), Reflections in a Darker Mirror, Solo exhibition, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2022), Vanishing Apertures, Solo exhibition, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2021).

Selected group exhibitions include TRUE COLOUR, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2025), EXISTENTIAL LICENCE, Peckham, London (2025), On paper with Stoney Road Press, The Ballinglen Museum of Art (2025), Supernova, Flowers Gallery, London (2024), Time and Time Again, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2024), Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2024), Royal Academy London, invited artist (2024), Shelter, National Gallery of Ireland (2023), It Took a Century, Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland (2023), ANARENE, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2023), Who do we say we are, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Indiana (2022), Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, Curated by Sean Scully, Flowers Gallery, London (2022).

Copperwhite’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including: The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin City Gallery – The Hugh Lane, The Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Arts Council of Ireland, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame University, Indiana, British Library, London, Mariehamn Stadsbibliotek, Aland, Finland, Office of Public Works Ireland, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Highlanes Municipal Gallery of Art and Private collections worldwide.

Upcoming exhibitions in Los Angeles, London and Sydney (2026).