Bernadette Hopkins Artist
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    • The Broken Column
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    • Drawn From Borders
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    • Call for the Wild
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    • Art of Resistance
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Bernadette Hopkins 
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Biography
Bernadette Hopkins is a visual, performance and participatory artist. She was born in Belfast, N.Ireland and grew up there during ‘the troubles’ working as a nurse in her late teens and early 20’s taking care of the injured. This experience led to studying human rights and politics alongside her art practice. Since 1982, she has lived and worked in Milan, Dublin and Co.Donegal, where she has been living for 20 years. She has a Masters in Social Practice Art and BA in Fine Art and Painting. 


Bernadette explores contested spaces and ecology within her lived landscapes, articulating the unheard voice in the relationship between Self and Other. The bodily human edge influences her art processes, viewing the skin as border and boundary which seeks respect of the other. Her work is an invitation to a conversation developed with art methodology, research and meditation through multimedia, performance art and collaborative practices.


She researched and wrote ‘A Donegal Framework Document for Intercultural Art and Culture’, commissioned and published by Donegal, Mayo and South County Dublin Art Councils and has co-founded artist collaborations Wild Swans, Cuislí , Utopia Ducks and Art of Resistance. She curates Radical ReThink Conversations in Contemporary Art at the Regional Cultural Centre, Co. Donegal. Recent collaborative performances include ‘Forgotten Places’ by Wild Swans Artists in collaboration with Gresol Art Spain and with Bbeyond Performance Art Belfast.  

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+353 86 3711 601

Email

bernadettehopkins@icloud.com
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  • Home
  • About
    • Artist Statement
    • CV
    • Biography
  • Performance Art
    • Fem 20 Performance
    • Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places'
    • The Politics of Water
    • Bound for your Pleasure
    • Fem 2019 Girona, Spain
    • Tainted Cyan
    • 'Voicing the Bridge' Clady Border
    • Roots of Disarmament
    • Night of the Utopian Bonfire
    • Three People in a Room at a Table
    • We are all I know is there
    • Please Open the Door Behind You
    • Buried Deeds
    • The Invisible Red Line
    • The Broken Column
    • Administration of Occupation
  • Participatory Art
    • Radical ReThink
    • Toxic Blush
    • Cyan SOS The Occupation
    • Drawn From Borders
    • Utopia Ducks
    • Call for the Wild
    • Culture Crossroads
    • Art of Resistance
    • Social Practice Art Collaborations
    • Bread and Roses Theatre
  • Publication Donegal Intercultural Framework Document
  • Selected Paintings and Photography
  • Contact
  • Recent Events
  • Publications
  • Media