“People thought I was on cloud nine, but nothing kills a cloud quicker than coming home to a deadline where I have to make a painting.” Coppersmith has also had to rise to the challenge of public speaking, which has “stretched my own comfort zone,” she says.
That she is a proficient public speaker has been a recent discovery – “I never knew I had it in me, in the studio you can be so in your own head.”Earlier this week the Australia Council for the Arts announced two key changes to how Australian participation in the Venice Biennale is managed.“I worked on 25 studies before beginning the final linen,” she says.
Articles. Coppersmith studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. Yvette Coppersmith. News. In recent years, her practice has expanded to also include still life compositions, as well as bold abstract forms. Yvette Coppersmith. Articles. oil on linen, 61cm x 51cm, 2016 - 18.
Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, acrylic on linen, 244.5 x 183 cm.
Yvette Coppersmith, Self-portrait, after George Lambert, oil and acrylic on linen, 132 x 112 cm. 2018 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW. In 2018 she won the Archibald Prize with a self-portrait, in the style of George Lambert.
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Get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox.Curious, mystical, humourous and bittersweet, Willoh S. Weiland uses her smartphone to give us a sense of living and working in Hobart.Playful and introspective, portraits from the Northern Beaches reveal a diverse artistic community.The fact that The Archibald Prize is judged by the AGNSW board of trustees, not a team of art experts, introduces a random element into the process. CV. Jesse Marlow. Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980) is an Australian painter; she specialises in portraiture and still life. Work.
I mention the defiance in her self-portrait’s gaze, which belies the femininity of the velvet drapes, and the tenderness of the green foliage. She is however, giving herself one luxury, “I’m going to take a year off from sending a painting to the Archibald Prize.”Coppersmith first saw the Archibald finalists’ paintings when she was 15, “I looked closely at all of them even though back then I didn’t know I would be a painter.” The “super-realist” works by 1997 Archibald runner-up, Those initial experiments with genre admits Coppersmith, “were clumsy, it’s like I was putting on an outfit that belongs to someone else.”Art critic Christopher Allen’s caustic assessment of her painting in After a 2014 show at Melbourne’s now-defunct Utopian Slumps, Coppersmith started on a path which over the next few years took her subject of still life through a series of stylistic changes from realism to cubism. She teaches painting and drawing and has facilitated two workshops this year for Zart Education, Painting Better Portraits. This included 17 sketches in pencil and some in oil. Work. George Lambert (1873–1930) is one of her favourite artists. A few weeks ago Zart sat down and asked Yvette a few questions. Articles. INFO + BOOKINGS. Articles. Yvette Coppersmith began her practice as a portraitist working within the realist style and over the past 15 years has expanded her subject matter and style to include working in abstraction. “To make a work without an awareness of an audience is virtually impossible, even though I began doing portraits or drawings of faces to hang in my childhood room, and that’s probably what I still want to do. 2003 Inaugural Metro 5 Art Prize, Armadale . Work News Articles CV Contact Yvette Coppersmith. Work. It’s almost impossible to predict who will win the Archie.Scars are evidence of injury, but they are also a mark of healing, resilience and survival.The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize 2018 ExhibitionArt critics Andrew Frost (an Art Guide regular) and John McDonald both made much the same point in their recent articles in The 2018 Wynne Prize, which is awarded to either a landscape painting or a figurative sculpture, went to The Sulman Prize includes works which can be described as subject paintings, genre paintings or mural projects. The threadbare yellow throw that appeared as the backdrop is still pinned to the wall. Contact. Yvette Coppersmith. Yvette Coppersmith is a Melbourne based artist working in oil. Contact.