String of Pearls was a collection of pastel drawings shown at Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania in 1998. The work brought together a year of travel and research in visual images. Coppola had been awarded the University of Tasmania’s residency at the Cite des Artes in Paris where she spent five months drawing and visiting galleries. After the residency Coppola visited family in Italy where she also set up studio and continued to draw this experience. It was at this time that Coppola discovered a bolt of fabric that has continued to influence her work. Her grandmother had grown the flax, spun it and woven it into a continuous bolt of linen for her mother’s dowry. This fabric had remained in Italy until Coppola brought it with her to Australia in 1997.
Momentum
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
The Suspended Robe
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
The Hand of Raphael
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
Ombre
Pastel on paper
76h x 56w cm
Containment
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
Inhale/Exhale
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
The Veil
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
Seeds of Knowledge
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
Tuscan Horizon and Giusto's Tower
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
Tuscany
Pastel on paper
92h x 66w cm
Ember
Pastel on paper
100h x 70w cm
Embrace
Pastel on paper
100h x 70w cm
Ripe I
Pastel on paper
100h x 70w cm
Acanthus Embrace
Pastel on paper
100h x 70w cm
Nature Morte I
Pastel on paper
80h x 120w cm
Nature Moret II
Pastel on paper
80h x 120w cm
Blue Indigo
Pastel on paper
100h x 70w cm
Envelop
Pastel on paper
76h x 56w cm
Bound
Pastel on paper
76h x 56w cm
Enclosure
Pastel on paper
76h x 56w cm
The Unveiling I
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
The Unveiling II
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
The Unveiling III
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
The Arnolfini Marriage
Pastel on paper
105h x 75w cm
Canova et Coppola
Pastel on paper
80h x 120w cm