Bernadette Hopkins
Artist CV
Recent Selected Events
August 2019 'In Time, Beyond Time' Performance, Bbeyond, Roe Valley Arts Centre Limavady. N.Ireland
August 2019 'Cyanide Blue' Digital Mixed Media, Identity Exhibition, Artlink. Co. Donegal
July 2019 'Voicing the Bridge' Clady Border Performance with Bbeyond in collaboration with Void Gallery Derry, Earagail Arts and Finnish Embassey
June 2019 'Framework Document for Donegal Intercultural Arts and Culture' Research Publication commissioned by Donegal County Council Arts Office, South County Dublin, Mayo County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform.
May 2019 Radical Rethink, Series of 8 Artists Conversation Curations, Regional Cultural Centre, Co.Donegal
May 2019 Performance responding to Filip Markiewicz’s, Celebration Factory, at CCA Gallery, Derry
May 2019 El Tenedero Feminist Art Performance workshops with Monica Mayer (Mexico) at Bbeyond, Belfast
April 2019 Culture Crossroads Café, with Donegal Intercultural Platform, Research Event, RCC, Co. Donegal
March 2019 Performance with Denys Blacker (Spain) and Bbeyond, Belfast
Febuary 2019 Intercultural Art in Action Workshops, Buncrana, Pollen Bay and Stranolar, Co.Donegal
January 2019 Presentation, Performances and Residency at PS2 Studios, Belfast
January 2019 'Ducks have Landed' Performances at PS2 Studios and Cornmarket and St Georges Market, Belfast
December 2018 Café Arabia Social Practice Art Intercultural event, Regional Cultural Centre, Co Donegal
October 2018 Yellow Manifesto Participatory Performance led by Suzanne Lacy, Stormont, Belfast
October 2018 Call for the Wild, Barnesyneilly Performance and event.Co.Donegal
August 2018 Finding Corracramph Performance and event. Lough Eske Co. Donegal
July 2018 Roots of Disarmament Performance and event. Fort Dunree Co. Donegal
June 2018 Night of the Utopian Bonfire Performance and event. Fanad Co Donegal
June 2018 Please Open the Door Performance Cuislí K-FesT Co Kerry
August 2017 'Manifold' Artlink members show curated by Stephan Roche 126 Gallery Galway.
July 2017 'We are all I know there is' Performance and exhibition, Artlink Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal
June 2017 'Three People in a Room at a Table' Exhibition and Performance Damer House Gallery, Tipperary
March 2017 ‘Critical Thinking through Art’ Workshop given at Scoil Mhuire Buncrana
Past Selected Events
December 2016 ‘Activist Screen Prints ‘ The Human Rights Festival 2016 with CCA Derry
November 2016 ‘No Jury No Prize’ Exhibition Artlink Fort Dunree Co. Donegal
August 2016 ‘The Invisible Red Line ‘ Performance curated by Lucy Elvis for Artlink
July 2016 ‘Buried Deeds’ Opening Cairde Arts Festival Sligo. Performance
March 2016 ‘The Broken Column’ Outside Letterkenny Performance/Intervention
January 2016 ‘Life and Freedom’ An Grainan Theatre Letterkenny Performance
November 2015 ‘Stay Human’ Balor Arts Centre, Curation
October 2015 ‘Administration of Occupation’ Fort Dunree Co. Donegal. Performance
June 2015 'Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay?' Set design for Bread and Roses Theatre Company
March 2015 ‘Blood Rising’ RCC, Letterkenny. Curation and public discussion with Artist Brian Maguire
March 2015 ‘Celebrate Eve’ Ramelton, Donegal. Curation for International Women’s Day
August 2014 ‘A Candle for Gaza’ Performance Art and Music Event Curation, Ramelton, Co. Donegal
2010 ‘Recession New York’ Rogue Gallery New York and Letterkenny Bank of Ireland. Exhibitions/Solo
2009 ‘A Terrible Beauty’ Varese, Italy. Paintings 6 Irish artists EU Festival of Irish culture
2007 'Human Error' Donegal. Group exhibition with artists Brian Maguire and Shane Cullen
2004 ‘Bodily’ Painting Exhibition, Earagail Arts Festival. Letterkenny University Hospital Co. Donegal
2003 ‘Sensory Stigmata’ An Grainan Theatre, Letterkenny. Paintings /Solo exhibition
2002 ‘River beneath the River’ Artlink, Tullyarvan Mill. Donegal. Paintings/Solo exhibition
Education
2018 MA Space Social Practice Art and Creative Environment, LSAD Limerick. First Class Honours
2014 Brecht Political Theatre Training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 Fine Art and Painting, Honours, IADT Dún Laoghaire
1996 Visual Ed, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
1989 Diploma in Microbiology Royal College Surgeons Dublin
1987 Nurse Specialist in Renal, Haemodialysis and Transplantation
1981 SRN/GRN Nursing Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry. N.Ireland
Research and Documentations
Donegal Art in Action Research Framework Document, Published June 2019. Commisioned by Donegal Arts Office, Donegal County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform.
Danchara Methodology for Performance Art created by Utopia Ducks 2018
Professional Memberships
Create Ireland
Artlink, Fort Dunree Co.Donegal
Visual Artists Ireland
126 Gallery, Galway
Co-Founded Collaborations
Utopia Ducks Social Practice Art Events
Cuislí Performance Art
Art of Resistance Collective
August 2019 'In Time, Beyond Time' Performance, Bbeyond, Roe Valley Arts Centre Limavady. N.Ireland
August 2019 'Cyanide Blue' Digital Mixed Media, Identity Exhibition, Artlink. Co. Donegal
July 2019 'Voicing the Bridge' Clady Border Performance with Bbeyond in collaboration with Void Gallery Derry, Earagail Arts and Finnish Embassey
June 2019 'Framework Document for Donegal Intercultural Arts and Culture' Research Publication commissioned by Donegal County Council Arts Office, South County Dublin, Mayo County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform.
May 2019 Radical Rethink, Series of 8 Artists Conversation Curations, Regional Cultural Centre, Co.Donegal
May 2019 Performance responding to Filip Markiewicz’s, Celebration Factory, at CCA Gallery, Derry
May 2019 El Tenedero Feminist Art Performance workshops with Monica Mayer (Mexico) at Bbeyond, Belfast
April 2019 Culture Crossroads Café, with Donegal Intercultural Platform, Research Event, RCC, Co. Donegal
March 2019 Performance with Denys Blacker (Spain) and Bbeyond, Belfast
Febuary 2019 Intercultural Art in Action Workshops, Buncrana, Pollen Bay and Stranolar, Co.Donegal
January 2019 Presentation, Performances and Residency at PS2 Studios, Belfast
January 2019 'Ducks have Landed' Performances at PS2 Studios and Cornmarket and St Georges Market, Belfast
December 2018 Café Arabia Social Practice Art Intercultural event, Regional Cultural Centre, Co Donegal
October 2018 Yellow Manifesto Participatory Performance led by Suzanne Lacy, Stormont, Belfast
October 2018 Call for the Wild, Barnesyneilly Performance and event.Co.Donegal
August 2018 Finding Corracramph Performance and event. Lough Eske Co. Donegal
July 2018 Roots of Disarmament Performance and event. Fort Dunree Co. Donegal
June 2018 Night of the Utopian Bonfire Performance and event. Fanad Co Donegal
June 2018 Please Open the Door Performance Cuislí K-FesT Co Kerry
August 2017 'Manifold' Artlink members show curated by Stephan Roche 126 Gallery Galway.
July 2017 'We are all I know there is' Performance and exhibition, Artlink Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal
June 2017 'Three People in a Room at a Table' Exhibition and Performance Damer House Gallery, Tipperary
March 2017 ‘Critical Thinking through Art’ Workshop given at Scoil Mhuire Buncrana
Past Selected Events
December 2016 ‘Activist Screen Prints ‘ The Human Rights Festival 2016 with CCA Derry
November 2016 ‘No Jury No Prize’ Exhibition Artlink Fort Dunree Co. Donegal
August 2016 ‘The Invisible Red Line ‘ Performance curated by Lucy Elvis for Artlink
July 2016 ‘Buried Deeds’ Opening Cairde Arts Festival Sligo. Performance
March 2016 ‘The Broken Column’ Outside Letterkenny Performance/Intervention
January 2016 ‘Life and Freedom’ An Grainan Theatre Letterkenny Performance
November 2015 ‘Stay Human’ Balor Arts Centre, Curation
October 2015 ‘Administration of Occupation’ Fort Dunree Co. Donegal. Performance
June 2015 'Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay?' Set design for Bread and Roses Theatre Company
March 2015 ‘Blood Rising’ RCC, Letterkenny. Curation and public discussion with Artist Brian Maguire
March 2015 ‘Celebrate Eve’ Ramelton, Donegal. Curation for International Women’s Day
August 2014 ‘A Candle for Gaza’ Performance Art and Music Event Curation, Ramelton, Co. Donegal
2010 ‘Recession New York’ Rogue Gallery New York and Letterkenny Bank of Ireland. Exhibitions/Solo
2009 ‘A Terrible Beauty’ Varese, Italy. Paintings 6 Irish artists EU Festival of Irish culture
2007 'Human Error' Donegal. Group exhibition with artists Brian Maguire and Shane Cullen
2004 ‘Bodily’ Painting Exhibition, Earagail Arts Festival. Letterkenny University Hospital Co. Donegal
2003 ‘Sensory Stigmata’ An Grainan Theatre, Letterkenny. Paintings /Solo exhibition
2002 ‘River beneath the River’ Artlink, Tullyarvan Mill. Donegal. Paintings/Solo exhibition
Education
2018 MA Space Social Practice Art and Creative Environment, LSAD Limerick. First Class Honours
2014 Brecht Political Theatre Training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 Fine Art and Painting, Honours, IADT Dún Laoghaire
1996 Visual Ed, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
1989 Diploma in Microbiology Royal College Surgeons Dublin
1987 Nurse Specialist in Renal, Haemodialysis and Transplantation
1981 SRN/GRN Nursing Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry. N.Ireland
Research and Documentations
Donegal Art in Action Research Framework Document, Published June 2019. Commisioned by Donegal Arts Office, Donegal County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform.
Danchara Methodology for Performance Art created by Utopia Ducks 2018
Professional Memberships
Create Ireland
Artlink, Fort Dunree Co.Donegal
Visual Artists Ireland
126 Gallery, Galway
Co-Founded Collaborations
Utopia Ducks Social Practice Art Events
Cuislí Performance Art
Art of Resistance Collective