Author Archives: Filomena

The spiral represents continuity, that even through this feels so new and extraordinary to us, we know that mother earth has experienced something like this before and moved through it. Shadowed by the spiral is the earth (our hemisphere) as … Continue reading →

Honoured to have Rita Wilson, Monash University include my work, specifically the Earthly Tales exhibition, in her talk Re-Framing Narratives of Migrant Heritage as part of the session panel Visualizing a Living Heritage: Italian Transcultural Practices in Australia as part … Continue reading →

I presented as part of a panel Panel – Visual and Verbal Memories: Italian Migrant Creativity Across the World. L-R Chair: Prof Fred Gardaphe (USA), John D Calandra Italian American Institute New York. Filomena Coppola (AUS), Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo (AUS), Dr Eliana … Continue reading →

The Weight of my Culture (cups) is the second work that I have developed using coffee cups that i have been collecting from family members in Mildura – mostly from broken and old used sets. These new works are more … Continue reading →

I have been collecting coffee cups from family members in Mildura – mostly from broken and old used sets. These new works are more about using objects and elements of nature that already evoke memory and then imbuing them with … Continue reading →

This is the sixth of nine summer solstice releases which begain in 2013. This year I released this fish at Alexandra Gardens in Kew, it was the first rainy release. Again, I Facebooked and Instragramed the image and location and … Continue reading →

Circle of Stones was a group exhibition with Merle Narkle-Goodwin, Holly Story, Janelle Mendham, Nikala Bourke, Sujora Conrad and Lana de Jager. Circle of Stones is a connection to place and time as it relates to the earth’s rotation around … Continue reading →

This new series of works was exhibited as part of Ilona Nelson’s project, This Wild Song at Hawthorn Town Hall. The exhibition featured 26 portraits of female artists along with their artwork. Such a powerful commitment to the representation of … Continue reading →

VIVID, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, 350 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, 1 – 25 August, 2018 Sue Beyer, Louise Blyton, Filomena Coppola, Rox de Luca, Ilona Nelson Colour is often dismissed as having a purely decorative function. In this exhibition colour is … Continue reading →

I received a Face Book post asking me if this was one of mine. And, yes it is one of mine. I left it at Spring Equinox, Williamstown Beach, 20 September 2014. I asked the finder if she could share the … Continue reading →