[1] Cope has managed and curated many artist-run projects and events, including tinygold[2] and the BARI (Brisbane Artist Run Initiative) Festival.
[5] Cope creates video, installation, sculptures, and paintings which challenge notions of Aboriginality, and her work examines the Australian narrative and our sense of time and ownership in a settler colonial state.
[9] In 2017, the Australian War Memorial commissioned Cope as official war artist (the first female Aboriginal woman in the role), to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Australian Defence Force units, in order to record and interpret topics relating to Australia's contribution to the international effort in the region.
[10] In the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, titled Monster Theatres, Cope created an installation made of rocks, rusted steel drums, wire and huge drill bits that functions as an instrument designed to be played by musicians using modified bows and which mimics the sound of the bush stone-curlew, a native bird which is thriving on Minjerribah (now North Stradbroke Island), but endangered in New South Wales and Victoria.
[13] The Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane purchased Re Formation 2016–2019 in 2019,[20] and included it in the Water exhibition (7 December 2019 – 26 April 2020).