Artist Bio
Katherine Coppock was born in 1986 in Adelaide, South Australia. As a child she was distant, preferring hide away places, books, painting, and Lego. During primary school, she was hyperactive and random, leading to her being teased and harassed until she learned to trust noone. High school was an awkward place as new experiences and learning clashed with a sudden sense of awareness and fluctuating hormones. After a turbulent mid-teens during which she fell madly in love, discovered sex, repeated high school, and started experimenting with drugs, she moved out of the family nest at 19 with her factory-worker beautiful geek boyfriend David, much to her parents consternation.
In 2005 Katherine started studying Visual Art at UniSA, a giant leap from the easy going co-dependency of high school, and after cleaning for the family, a great deal of pressure and lack of support from the local government, started working as a check out chick for a hardware chain. At this point art was still a means of expression for her, finding solace in her sketchbook and learning the basics pf photography, she criticized the failings of the system and found escape through rampant surrealist expressionism.
After moving house five or six times as friends, family, and the world kept falling through their fingers in a cloud of alcohol, pot, and passive aggressive, bi-polar disagreements, Katherine and David mutually broke off the relationship in 2006. After moving to her friends house, Katherine started undergoing a long breaking down, during which she failed and then delayed her uni studies, worked full time, and developed a heavy dependence on alcohol, late nights, random sex, and other drugs.
2007 saw her moving away from the support of her friends into a house of her own (complete with cat), at which point Katherine and David (who had been seeing each other here and there since they broke up, causing much pain and awkwardness) threw sense to the wind and had a mini affair, dotted with mini break ups and smatterings of casual sex. Depression for both parties was close on the heels of each of these encounters, and driven slowly mad by the isolation and the drama Katherine began to lose of sense of living, despite the gloriously cute black kitten by her side.
2008 was a year that changed her life. In late April Katherine embarked on a three month journey through Europe with two friends (and finally destroyed the bond between her and her ex boyfriend forever), the first part a constant 45 day Contiki Tour party, the second half back packing through London and Scotland. After a stop over in Hong Kong which amazed and terrified her, Katherine returned to Adelaide enlivened and excited by her experiences. Obtaining a job selling credit cards in a pyramid scheme company, she tried to resume her art studies while working full time for less than minimum wage. Eating little and drinking what she had left, Katherine found comfort from random relationships and instability which seemed to compliment her aimless life. So long without being peaceful or convincingly creative had left her feeling confused and stunted, convinced there was something missing. After quitting from the credit card business she returned to a beading store which she had spent time working before the Euro trip, and used her jewelery making skills to earn a meager living.
In late 2008 she met Phil outside a bar in the city, and they started uneasily dating. At some point her introduced her to Higher Ground, a NFP artist bar promoting all media and forms of arts. Before long she was working there, and drawing on her experiences with other jobs, slowly grew in confidence and creativity until without guidance she found inspirations for many paintings and drawings that displayed vividly-colored memories and impressions tempered by images of her past. Her photography remained in the real world however, exploring both random patterning in society and human mind, and staged photography. In mid 2009 Phil moved into her home, further cementing their rapidly thickening relationship. This lead to more financial and emotional freedom, as well as a greater sense of love and inner peace, and she completed the rest of her year with dedications and strength.
After the closure of the Bead Hive due to financial reasons, Katherine found yet another job working in a bead store, as well as working Bar at Higher Ground. Through an opportunity in bar renovations she somehow managed to jet propel her artistic growth by painting a huge mural on the front of the bar. Since then her faith in herself and her skills has grown, leading to refinements within her practice and a renewed sense of vitality in her artistic career.
She is currently finishing her third year in 'Visual Art Studio Specialization' at UniSA, majoring in painting and minoring in photography. She is living with two cats now, as well as her boyfriend Phil, and has an upcoming exhibition at Higher Ground on April 1st 2010, featuring painted snapshots of the years since her last appearance in a youth arts show in 2004.
Tabula Transentia will be showing at Higher Ground Art Cafe from 1/4/2010 until the 31/4/2010.
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this is what it SHOULD read anyway.
In 2005 Katherine started studying Visual Art at UniSA, a giant leap from the easy going co-dependency of high school, and after cleaning for the family, a great deal of pressure and lack of support from the local government, started working as a check out chick for a hardware chain. At this point art was still a means of expression for her, finding solace in her sketchbook and learning the basics pf photography, she criticized the failings of the system and found escape through rampant surrealist expressionism.
After moving house five or six times as friends, family, and the world kept falling through their fingers in a cloud of alcohol, pot, and passive aggressive, bi-polar disagreements, Katherine and David mutually broke off the relationship in 2006. After moving to her friends house, Katherine started undergoing a long breaking down, during which she failed and then delayed her uni studies, worked full time, and developed a heavy dependence on alcohol, late nights, random sex, and other drugs.
2007 saw her moving away from the support of her friends into a house of her own (complete with cat), at which point Katherine and David (who had been seeing each other here and there since they broke up, causing much pain and awkwardness) threw sense to the wind and had a mini affair, dotted with mini break ups and smatterings of casual sex. Depression for both parties was close on the heels of each of these encounters, and driven slowly mad by the isolation and the drama Katherine began to lose of sense of living, despite the gloriously cute black kitten by her side.
2008 was a year that changed her life. In late April Katherine embarked on a three month journey through Europe with two friends (and finally destroyed the bond between her and her ex boyfriend forever), the first part a constant 45 day Contiki Tour party, the second half back packing through London and Scotland. After a stop over in Hong Kong which amazed and terrified her, Katherine returned to Adelaide enlivened and excited by her experiences. Obtaining a job selling credit cards in a pyramid scheme company, she tried to resume her art studies while working full time for less than minimum wage. Eating little and drinking what she had left, Katherine found comfort from random relationships and instability which seemed to compliment her aimless life. So long without being peaceful or convincingly creative had left her feeling confused and stunted, convinced there was something missing. After quitting from the credit card business she returned to a beading store which she had spent time working before the Euro trip, and used her jewelery making skills to earn a meager living.
In late 2008 she met Phil outside a bar in the city, and they started uneasily dating. At some point her introduced her to Higher Ground, a NFP artist bar promoting all media and forms of arts. Before long she was working there, and drawing on her experiences with other jobs, slowly grew in confidence and creativity until without guidance she found inspirations for many paintings and drawings that displayed vividly-colored memories and impressions tempered by images of her past. Her photography remained in the real world however, exploring both random patterning in society and human mind, and staged photography. In mid 2009 Phil moved into her home, further cementing their rapidly thickening relationship. This lead to more financial and emotional freedom, as well as a greater sense of love and inner peace, and she completed the rest of her year with dedications and strength.
After the closure of the Bead Hive due to financial reasons, Katherine found yet another job working in a bead store, as well as working Bar at Higher Ground. Through an opportunity in bar renovations she somehow managed to jet propel her artistic growth by painting a huge mural on the front of the bar. Since then her faith in herself and her skills has grown, leading to refinements within her practice and a renewed sense of vitality in her artistic career.
She is currently finishing her third year in 'Visual Art Studio Specialization' at UniSA, majoring in painting and minoring in photography. She is living with two cats now, as well as her boyfriend Phil, and has an upcoming exhibition at Higher Ground on April 1st 2010, featuring painted snapshots of the years since her last appearance in a youth arts show in 2004.
Tabula Transentia will be showing at Higher Ground Art Cafe from 1/4/2010 until the 31/4/2010.
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this is what it SHOULD read anyway.