Filomena Coppola b.

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painter, born Mildura, Victoria to Italian parents. Widely travelled, Coppola has lived and worked in Italy, France and the United States. Influenced by her parents' heritage and her own journey of self discovery, Coppola uses the object and its relationship with context to map her cultural lineage.
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painter, born Mildura, Victoria, to Italian parents. Coppola studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction at La Trobe University in Victoria, completing her Honours component at the University of Tasmania, where she attained a Master of Fine Arts in 1995.

Coppola’s father and mother migrated to Australia from Italy in 1955 and 1961. They met and married in Australia, where Coppola and her sister where born. This split cultural heritage had a profound impact on Coppola, finding herself belonging at once to both cultures and wholly to none. Cultural heritage and the investigation of belonging are overarching themes in Coppola’s work, represented by studies of the relationship between the object, its placement, and its existence in the world. Coppola’s work explores the intersection of her dichotomous cultures, their convergence and divergence, merging and separation. Through this investigation Coppola has come to understand her two cultures as interdependent, each unable to exist without the other.

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