Bernadette Hopkins
Artist CV
Recent
October 2018 Yellow Manifesto by Border People, 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 Behind You Performance Cuislí K-FEST Co Kerry
August 2017 'Manifold' Artlink members show curated by Stephan Roche 126 Gallery Galway. Paintings.
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' Cuislí Exhibition and live performance Damer House Gallery
December 2016 ‘Activist Screen Print ‘ 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
January 2016 ‘Life and Freedom’ An Grainan Theatre Letterkenny Performance
November 2015 ‘Stay Human’ Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey Performance
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
April 2015 ‘Art as Resistance’ Town Hall Ramelton, Donegal. Word and performance
March 2015 ‘Blood Rising’ Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny. Curation and public discussion with Artist Brian Maguire
March 2015 ‘Celebrate Eve’ Ramelton, Donegal. Curation for International Women’s Day
Past Selected Events
2014 ‘Art of Resistance Collective’ Founded with 5 other multidisciplinary artists/art platform on human rights.
2010 ‘Recession New York’ Rogue Gallery New York and Letterkenny Bank of Ireland. Painting Solo Exhibition
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/Solo exhibition as part of Earagail Arts Festival.
2003 ‘Sensory Stigmata’ An Grainan Theatre, Letterkenny. Paintings /Solo exhibition
2002 ‘River beneath the River’ Donegal. Paintings/Solo exhibition
Education
2017 -18 MA Social Practice Art and Creative Environments, First Class Honours Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Brecht Political Theatre, Performance training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 Fine Art, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Dublin
1996 Visual Education, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Dublin
1988 Diploma Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons. Dublin
1987 Nurse Specialist in Renal, Haemodialysis and Transplantation, Jervis St and Beaumont Hospital Ireland
Residences
2010 Rogue Space Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2006-2016 Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Monaghan.Ireland
Media and Bibliography
2016 https://vimeo.com/191623339 The Invisible Red Line Performance Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal
2016 https://vimeo.com/161457162 The Broken Column International Women’s Day Performance
Professional Affiliations
Artlink, Fort Dunree Co.Donegal
Visual Artists Ireland
Create Ireland
126 Gallery, Galway
October 2018 Yellow Manifesto by Border People, 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 Behind You Performance Cuislí K-FEST Co Kerry
August 2017 'Manifold' Artlink members show curated by Stephan Roche 126 Gallery Galway. Paintings.
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' Cuislí Exhibition and live performance Damer House Gallery
December 2016 ‘Activist Screen Print ‘ 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
January 2016 ‘Life and Freedom’ An Grainan Theatre Letterkenny Performance
November 2015 ‘Stay Human’ Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey Performance
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
April 2015 ‘Art as Resistance’ Town Hall Ramelton, Donegal. Word and performance
March 2015 ‘Blood Rising’ Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny. Curation and public discussion with Artist Brian Maguire
March 2015 ‘Celebrate Eve’ Ramelton, Donegal. Curation for International Women’s Day
Past Selected Events
2014 ‘Art of Resistance Collective’ Founded with 5 other multidisciplinary artists/art platform on human rights.
2010 ‘Recession New York’ Rogue Gallery New York and Letterkenny Bank of Ireland. Painting Solo Exhibition
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/Solo exhibition as part of Earagail Arts Festival.
2003 ‘Sensory Stigmata’ An Grainan Theatre, Letterkenny. Paintings /Solo exhibition
2002 ‘River beneath the River’ Donegal. Paintings/Solo exhibition
Education
2017 -18 MA Social Practice Art and Creative Environments, First Class Honours Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Brecht Political Theatre, Performance training with Director Kathleen McCreery
2000 Fine Art, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Dublin
1996 Visual Education, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Dublin
1988 Diploma Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons. Dublin
1987 Nurse Specialist in Renal, Haemodialysis and Transplantation, Jervis St and Beaumont Hospital Ireland
Residences
2010 Rogue Space Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2006-2016 Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Monaghan.Ireland
Media and Bibliography
2016 https://vimeo.com/191623339 The Invisible Red Line Performance Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal
2016 https://vimeo.com/161457162 The Broken Column International Women’s Day Performance
Professional Affiliations
Artlink, Fort Dunree Co.Donegal
Visual Artists Ireland
Create Ireland
126 Gallery, Galway