Cope’s solo exhibitions include Whispers, Sydney Opera House (2023); Fractures and Frequencies, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2021); The Black Napoleon, Australian Print Workshop, Naarm/Melbourne (2019); and The Blaktism, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2015).
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Ever Present, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra (2024); proppaNOW: There Goes The Neighbourhood!, Vera List Centre, New York (2023); Busan Biennale 2022: We, On The Rising Wave, Busan; Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane (2022); OCCURRENT AFFAIR, UQ Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane; TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne (2021); NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarntanya/Adelaide (2020); and Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra (2017).
Her public art commissions include What Becomes of the Clouds (2022) at 80 Ann Street, Meanjin/Brisbane; After the Flood (2020) at James Cook University, Townsville; Weelam Ngalut/Our Place (2018) at Monash University, Clayfield; Transcendence (2015) at Museum Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; and You Are, Here Now (2015) at the Australian Catholic University, Naarm/Melbourne.
Her works are held in numerous national and international collections, including at the National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane, National Gallery Australia, Kamberri/Canberra; Newcastle Art Gallery, Muluubinba/Newcastle; and Musée de la civilisation, Quebec.
She is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW, recipients of the prestigious 2022–24 Jane Lombard Prize for Arts and Social Justice. In 2024, she received the Creative Australia Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts and in 2017–19, she was the official Australian War Artist, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. She is represented by Milani Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane.
