Bernadette Hopkins Artist
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    • 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
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    • The Invisible Red Line
    • The Broken Column
    • Administration of Occupation
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    • 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
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Bernadette Hopkins
Artist CV
Recent Selected Events
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 
1989 Diploma in Microbiology Royal College Surgeons Dublin
​1987 Nurse Specialist Dialysis and Transplantation


Research and Documentations 

September 2020 Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Film and Digital Document published for online by Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
​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
 The Donegal Culture & Creativity Grant 2020 for Wild Swans 'Forgotten Places' Project Creative Ireland
Donegal County Council Artist Bursary 2019


Professional Memberships
Bbeyond, Belfast. N.Ireland
Artlink, Fort Dunree Co.Donegal
Visual Artists Ireland


Co-Founded Collaborations
Wild Swans Performance Art
​Utopia Ducks Social Practice Art Events 

Cuislí Performance Art
Art of Resistance Collective 

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Telephone

+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