{"id":17,"date":"2014-12-16T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradcopping.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:42:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0K1A8015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0K1A8015.jpg\" alt=\"glass blowing\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0K1A8015.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0K1A8015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradcopping.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0K1A8015-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><sub>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;                                     &nbsp;photo by Breda Murphy Photography<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Working from his home on the edge of the Canadian Shield, traditional Lands and Waters of the Chippewa and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg that are a part of Treaty 20 and the Williams Treaty, he acknowledges that these are living treaties in which we are all participants.  He has found both muse and foil in this transitional landscape of stone, wood and water, making work that accepts that we are not separate from the natural world.  And it is here that he maintains a practice as both sculptor and functional glass blower \u2013 often traversing the line between.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>His studio practice has evolved around attempts to understand our place in a world where the only constant is change.&nbsp; Searching for a dynamic balance, or equilibrium, within the flow of our lives, the work examines how we live with each other and within the physical places in which we find ourselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most of Copping\u2019s sculpture references water.&nbsp; \u201cWater moves us; it connects us one to another, both physically and metaphorically.&nbsp; It both nourishes and threatens us. Water flows within us and through all life, with water we are in constant communion. It is in this relationship that my search for balance and connectedness within one&#8217;s self, between people, and between people and place arises.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In 2022 the Art Gallery of Peterborough launched a digital publication &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/settingafloat.agp.on.ca\/\">https:\/\/settingafloat.agp.on.ca\/<\/a> &#8211; celebrating his 2016 exhibition \u2018Setting afloat on a river in spate\u2019.  His sculpture is included in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Mus\u00e9e national des beaux-arts du Qu\u00e9bec, the Speed Museum, the Fine Art Collection of the Department of Global Affairs, the Claridge (Bronfman) Collection, and the City of Lommel (Belgium) Glass Collection, and has also been acknowledged by the Corning Museum of Glass in their New Glass Review on nine occasions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The functional blown glasswork also explores form, surface and light. Often combining the hard edge of carving with the fluid form of the blown glass in the search for an aesthetic balance. This work can be found in the permanent collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, two examples of which are part of the 2023 exhibition \u2018Canadian Modern\u2019. The Canadian Embassy in Japan, the Racine Art Museum, and the Claridge (Bronfman) Collection also hold examples of his blown glasswork.\u00a0 The water glass design \u2018Forest Glass\u2019 was selected for use at the G8 Summit in Huntsville, Ontario in 2010 and in 2011 he was commissioned by Diageo to create a Crown Royal XR bottle commemorating the Duke &amp; Duchess of Cambridge\u2019s Royal Tour of Canada.  In 2022 Copping\u2019s functional blown work was honoured at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair with the Best of Craft and Design.  In 2025 his work was again honoured with the prestigious Murray and Marvelle Koffler Founder&#8217;s Award; the eleventh time his blown glasswork has garnered recognition from the TOAF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He has also received much appreciated support for the development of his work from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>To contact please email bgcopping@icloud.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><sub>The studio instagram has images of current and past work <\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n        <div\n            class=\"spotlight-instagram-feed\"\n            data-feed-var=\"43b36923\"\n            data-analytics=\"0\"\n            data-instance=\"17\"\n        >\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" 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