Yvette Coppersmithis represented by
Sullivan + Strumpf
Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore
P +61 2 9698 4696
E joanna@sullivanstrumpf.com
Yvette Coppersmith’s painting practice formed as a portraitist in the realist tradition, but over the last 20 years her visual language has been constantly evolving to include still life, abstraction and is particularly interested in the interplay of these genres with the figure. The representations of Self evolve through the process of her medium and stylistic transmutation, Coppersmith utilises the traditions of Australian and European modernism as a vehicle to image her own subjectivity as well as the people whom she paints.
In 2018 Yvette Coppersmith won the Archibald Prize for her painting Self Portrait, after George Lambert. This was the fifth year being included as a finalist, and she was the 10th woman to win the Prize. A Melbourne-based artist, Coppersmith graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. She won the inaugural Metro Prize in 2003 and has also been a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Coppersmith has exhibited her work in artist-run-initiatives, commercial galleries and public spaces in Melbourne, across Australia and internationally and her work is held in public and private collections. The making of her 2017 Archibald portrait of Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs features in Foxtel Arts’ documentary film 'The Archibald' by Mint Pictures. Her 2023 solo show ‘Carnelian’ at the Jewish Museum of Australia is their Inaugural Contemporary Commission to accompany CHAGALL.