Bernadette Hopkins
Artist CV
Recent Selected Events
June 2023 Multiple Sclerosis Group Milford’ Wind Chimes’ and ‘Totem Poles ‘ Exhibition and installation of collaborative socially engaged projects 2022-2023
May 2023 - ‘An Gorta Mór’ socially engaged art with schools in Donegal and groups in S.America and Africa on food sovereignity, creating a fine art botanical archive for the National Famine Commemoration 2023.
March 2023 Belfast International Festival of Performance Art ‘Leaving Patriarchy’ Performance at University Ulster School of Art -a performative analysis of dominating economies-moving to a circular society.
December 2022 FEM International Performance 'The Jurisprudence of War' with Gresol Art Spain
2 November 2022 'The Struggle for the Earth' talk on Art, Climate Justice and Rights of Nature for Comhlamh and Maynooth University series.
22 October 2022 'Earth Rising' Performance with Bbeyond IMMA
14 October 2022 National Women's Conference Speaker on Climate Justice and Rights of Nature and Participatory Art
1 September- 7 October 2022 ‘Creative Producers Programme’ from ‘Ancient Connections’ and ‘Curated Place’ participatory research.
July -September 2022 ‘These Stones, This Earth’ Performance developement project and research with artist/memtor Sandra Johnson funded by Arts Council’s Agility Award, with participation in Making Relatives Project Friends of the Earth
July-25 September 2022 ‘My Body Their Borders’ Filmed Performance exhibited in ‘Breaking Borders’ Exhibition at the Luan Gallery, Athlone with artist talk.
July 2022 ’I Came to Breathe' Art Installation’ at Drumboe Woods Co Donegal commissioned by Earagail Arts Festival
11 June 2022 Performance Lecture on women and borders at Flow Symposium 2022 Out of Site Chicago
6 May -5 June 2022 'A Pound of Feathers' Exhibition and Installation at Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny Co. Donegal
March 2022' Our Bodies Their Borders' online film viewing and talk for International Women's Day for Financial Justice Ireland
February 2022 ‘Breaking Borders’ Online Artist Talk with Italian Curator Valeria Ceregini
January 2022 ‘Our Bodies Their Borders’ Filmed performance shown in GOMA Waterford exhibition ‘Breaking Borders’ curated by Valeria Ceregini
November 2021 ‘Dust of Destruction; Breathe’ Performance, BBDB Performance Art for Global Day of Action for Climate Action, Derry
October 2021'Margaritifera margaritifera' Performance at Zapatistas Ireland Tour and F.O.E.N.I Environmental Gathering An Creagán Centre, Omagh, N.Ireland
October 2021 MS Creative Community Project ‘We Rise by Lifting Others’ with Milford MDRC Co Donegal
August 2021 'The Permeation of Feathers' Performance at Rathmullan Gun Battery Co Donegal and creative text for Wild Swans 'A Pound of Feathers' Project
June 2021 Curation of 'Borders as Embodied Sites' Webinar with artists Suzanne Lacy, Cian Smyth, Helen Sharpe, Alastair MacLennan, Elaine Mcginn, Brian Connolly
June 2021 'A Pound of Feathers' commencement of project management for Wild Swans International Performances funded by Creative Ireland
April 2021 'Natural World and Human Connections' Participatory Art Presentation for EJNI and Newcastle University Webinar 'Shared Rights on a Shared Island: Time to acknowledge the rights of nature'
March 2021 'Keeping Distance-Keeping Presence' Performance with Bbeyond and Konstepidemin , Gothenburg. Sweden
December 2020- 'Sea Fonds' Online Performance for FEM 20 International Festival, GresolArt, Spain
May - Oct 2020 Creation, Adaptation and Project Management 'Forgotten Places' Project 10 films, 10 texts shown in RCC September 2020.
August 2020 'Steeped was a word she used' Performance Art part of 'Forgotten Places' Wild Swans Collaboration Co. Donegal Ireland and Girona, Spain
June 2020 'Toxic Blush' Participatory Art Notes on Hibernian Artists Curated by Maja Ćirić, Belgrade
May 2020 'Cyan SOS, The Occupation' Multi Media /Photography Participatory Art Selected by Curator Valeria Ceregini for Journall Virtual Exhibition
February 2020 'Bound for your Pleasure' Solo Performance, Glassworks, Derry N.I. part of 'On the Way' Bbeyond International Normadic Performances
December 2019 'FEM 19' Girona, Spain.International Performance and Artist Residency at Madremanya.
November 2019 Radical ReThink in conversation with Brian Maguire and Siobhan McDonald, Regional Culture Centre, Letterkenny Co.Donegal
September 2019 'Tainted Cyan' Performance FIX 19 Catalyst Arts, in collaboration with Bbeyond, Belfast. N. Ireland
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 Environments, First Class Honours, Limerick School of Art and Design.
2014 Brecht Political Theatre Training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 BA Fine Art, Dun Laohaire College of Art, Dublin
1996 Visual Ed, Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Dublin
Research and Documentations
September 2020 Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Film and Digital Document published for online by Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny -see link https://regionalculturalcentre.com/forgottenplaces/
June 2020 'Hibernian Artistic Agility' by Curator Maja Ćirić, Belgrade published by Visual Artists Ireland
May 2020 https://journallartprogramme.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/cyan-sos-the-occupation; Curator Valeria Ceregini
December 2019 Performance Art Research Project through Collaborative Performance and Synergy, Girona Spain
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
Awards
Arts Council Agility Award 2022
Donegal County Council Artist Bursary 2022
Donegal County Council Artists Bursary 2021
Creative Ireland Donegal Award for 'A Pound of Feathers' 2021
The Donegal Culture & Creativity Grant 2020 for Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Project Creative Ireland
Donegal County Council Artist Bursary 2020
FEM 2019 Residency Girona Spain Award
Professional Memberships
Create, Ireland
Gresol Art Spain
Bbeyond, Belfast. N.Ireland
Visual Artists Ireland
Co-Founded Collaborations
Wild Swans Performance Art
Radical ReThink Artist Talk Series
Utopia Ducks Social Practice Art Events
Cuislí Performance Art
Art of Resistance Collective
June 2023 Multiple Sclerosis Group Milford’ Wind Chimes’ and ‘Totem Poles ‘ Exhibition and installation of collaborative socially engaged projects 2022-2023
May 2023 - ‘An Gorta Mór’ socially engaged art with schools in Donegal and groups in S.America and Africa on food sovereignity, creating a fine art botanical archive for the National Famine Commemoration 2023.
March 2023 Belfast International Festival of Performance Art ‘Leaving Patriarchy’ Performance at University Ulster School of Art -a performative analysis of dominating economies-moving to a circular society.
December 2022 FEM International Performance 'The Jurisprudence of War' with Gresol Art Spain
2 November 2022 'The Struggle for the Earth' talk on Art, Climate Justice and Rights of Nature for Comhlamh and Maynooth University series.
22 October 2022 'Earth Rising' Performance with Bbeyond IMMA
14 October 2022 National Women's Conference Speaker on Climate Justice and Rights of Nature and Participatory Art
1 September- 7 October 2022 ‘Creative Producers Programme’ from ‘Ancient Connections’ and ‘Curated Place’ participatory research.
July -September 2022 ‘These Stones, This Earth’ Performance developement project and research with artist/memtor Sandra Johnson funded by Arts Council’s Agility Award, with participation in Making Relatives Project Friends of the Earth
July-25 September 2022 ‘My Body Their Borders’ Filmed Performance exhibited in ‘Breaking Borders’ Exhibition at the Luan Gallery, Athlone with artist talk.
July 2022 ’I Came to Breathe' Art Installation’ at Drumboe Woods Co Donegal commissioned by Earagail Arts Festival
11 June 2022 Performance Lecture on women and borders at Flow Symposium 2022 Out of Site Chicago
6 May -5 June 2022 'A Pound of Feathers' Exhibition and Installation at Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny Co. Donegal
March 2022' Our Bodies Their Borders' online film viewing and talk for International Women's Day for Financial Justice Ireland
February 2022 ‘Breaking Borders’ Online Artist Talk with Italian Curator Valeria Ceregini
January 2022 ‘Our Bodies Their Borders’ Filmed performance shown in GOMA Waterford exhibition ‘Breaking Borders’ curated by Valeria Ceregini
November 2021 ‘Dust of Destruction; Breathe’ Performance, BBDB Performance Art for Global Day of Action for Climate Action, Derry
October 2021'Margaritifera margaritifera' Performance at Zapatistas Ireland Tour and F.O.E.N.I Environmental Gathering An Creagán Centre, Omagh, N.Ireland
October 2021 MS Creative Community Project ‘We Rise by Lifting Others’ with Milford MDRC Co Donegal
August 2021 'The Permeation of Feathers' Performance at Rathmullan Gun Battery Co Donegal and creative text for Wild Swans 'A Pound of Feathers' Project
June 2021 Curation of 'Borders as Embodied Sites' Webinar with artists Suzanne Lacy, Cian Smyth, Helen Sharpe, Alastair MacLennan, Elaine Mcginn, Brian Connolly
June 2021 'A Pound of Feathers' commencement of project management for Wild Swans International Performances funded by Creative Ireland
April 2021 'Natural World and Human Connections' Participatory Art Presentation for EJNI and Newcastle University Webinar 'Shared Rights on a Shared Island: Time to acknowledge the rights of nature'
March 2021 'Keeping Distance-Keeping Presence' Performance with Bbeyond and Konstepidemin , Gothenburg. Sweden
December 2020- 'Sea Fonds' Online Performance for FEM 20 International Festival, GresolArt, Spain
May - Oct 2020 Creation, Adaptation and Project Management 'Forgotten Places' Project 10 films, 10 texts shown in RCC September 2020.
August 2020 'Steeped was a word she used' Performance Art part of 'Forgotten Places' Wild Swans Collaboration Co. Donegal Ireland and Girona, Spain
June 2020 'Toxic Blush' Participatory Art Notes on Hibernian Artists Curated by Maja Ćirić, Belgrade
May 2020 'Cyan SOS, The Occupation' Multi Media /Photography Participatory Art Selected by Curator Valeria Ceregini for Journall Virtual Exhibition
February 2020 'Bound for your Pleasure' Solo Performance, Glassworks, Derry N.I. part of 'On the Way' Bbeyond International Normadic Performances
December 2019 'FEM 19' Girona, Spain.International Performance and Artist Residency at Madremanya.
November 2019 Radical ReThink in conversation with Brian Maguire and Siobhan McDonald, Regional Culture Centre, Letterkenny Co.Donegal
September 2019 'Tainted Cyan' Performance FIX 19 Catalyst Arts, in collaboration with Bbeyond, Belfast. N. Ireland
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 Environments, First Class Honours, Limerick School of Art and Design.
2014 Brecht Political Theatre Training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 BA Fine Art, Dun Laohaire College of Art, Dublin
1996 Visual Ed, Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Dublin
Research and Documentations
September 2020 Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Film and Digital Document published for online by Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny -see link https://regionalculturalcentre.com/forgottenplaces/
June 2020 'Hibernian Artistic Agility' by Curator Maja Ćirić, Belgrade published by Visual Artists Ireland
May 2020 https://journallartprogramme.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/cyan-sos-the-occupation; Curator Valeria Ceregini
December 2019 Performance Art Research Project through Collaborative Performance and Synergy, Girona Spain
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
Awards
Arts Council Agility Award 2022
Donegal County Council Artist Bursary 2022
Donegal County Council Artists Bursary 2021
Creative Ireland Donegal Award for 'A Pound of Feathers' 2021
The Donegal Culture & Creativity Grant 2020 for Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Project Creative Ireland
Donegal County Council Artist Bursary 2020
FEM 2019 Residency Girona Spain Award
Professional Memberships
Create, Ireland
Gresol Art Spain
Bbeyond, Belfast. N.Ireland
Visual Artists Ireland
Co-Founded Collaborations
Wild Swans Performance Art
Radical ReThink Artist Talk Series
Utopia Ducks Social Practice Art Events
Cuislí Performance Art
Art of Resistance Collective