About
Bernadette was a ships captain for may years in California. Today her affinity with the Ocean is reflected in her ceramic vessels, photography and glass work which emulates County Cork seascapes discovered while kayaking along the local Atlantic coastline.
Education
B.A (Hons) Contemporary Applied Art, Ceramics, Glass & Textiles • Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland · 06 / 2018
Kiln Cast Glass Sculpture · Shanghai University of Fine Art, Shanghai, China · 05 / 2017
B.A Pottery Skills & Design Course · Design & Crafts Council of Ireland & National University of Ireland, Thomastown Co. Kilkenny, Ireland · 09 / 2014
Ceramic, Ceramic Sculpture, Design, Art History · City College of San Francisco, Fort Mason Campus, San Francisco · 2000 / 2011
Retail
If you would like to purchase my work it is available through
Cork Craft & Design Store, 27a St Patricks Wollen Mills, Douglas , Cork, T12 H932.
&
Craft Ni Gallery & Shop, 115 - 119 Royal Avenue, Belfast BT1 1FF, United Kingdom.
Artists Statement
The primary intention of my work is to engage the public’s interest in their environment. I share the uniquely beautiful Atlantic environment I have explored by kayak through sculptural ceramic vessels, sound, video, photography and cast glass sculpture.
My sculptural ceramic vessels investigate the creative and destructive forces of nature visible in Atlantic coastal geology. I consider the erosive processes of wind and water and emulate these forces while making, conveying this energy into the piece. Using found materials from places accessible only by sea, layering coloured clays, marbling, tearing, compressing together, seam and strata, echoing the seascape of my inspiration.
Exhibitions Present & Past
2020
Artworks 2020 The Sky is Blue · The Visual Carlow , Old Dublin Rd, Graigue , Carlow · 07 -10/2020
Unlocked · Craft Northern Ireland , 112 -115 Royal Avenue, Belfast, N.I. · 08-10/ 2020
Clayworks at the Printworks · Ceramics Ireland Members Exhibition · Dublin Castle, Dublin · 08 /2020
Cork Potters Society 40th Anniversary Exhibition · Lavit Gallery, Wansford Quay Cork · 08/2020
SHOWCASE · Cork Craft & Design Annual Exhibition · Working Artists Studios, Ballydehob, Co. Cork · 08/2020
Land of Some Order · Lavit Gallery Cork · 03 - 07/ 2020
Kanturk Arts Festival · Kanturk Co. Cork · 03/2020 · cancelled
2019
Winter Salon · Studio 12 · B.A.G. Wansford Quay Cork · 12/2019
Contemporary Craft Exhibition · South Tipp Arts Center Clonmel Co. Tipperary · 12/2019
Going Solo Solo show · Toradh 2 Gallery · Kells Co. Meath · 09 -11/ 2019
UnSettle All Things · Crawford College of Art & Design Graduate Residents Show, Grand Parade, Cork · 09 / 2019
We Are Cork Cork Craft & DesignGroup Show · City Hall Cork · 08/2019
Clayworks at the Printworks · Ceramics Ireland Members Exhibition · Dublin Castle, Dublin · 08 /2019
Present Past Cork Craft & Design Showcase Exhibition· Fota House, Cork · 08/2019
Following Contours Solo Show · Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards, Co. Down, U.K. · 06 – 07/ 2019
2018
Craft & Design Fair · Glucksman Gallery UCC, Cork · 11/2018
Ceramics Ireland Selected Members Exhibition · Rathfarnam Castle, Dublin · 10/2018
Emerge 2018 · City Hall Atrium, Cork · 09/2018
See/Saw Degree Exhibition · Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork · 06/2018
2017
Under €250 · Cork Institute of Technology Gallery, Wansford Quay, Cork · 12 /2017
Oda · Vilinus Art Academy, Vilinus, Lithuania · 09 / 2017
Nahk · Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia · 03-04 / 2017
Skin · Cork Institute of Technology Gallery, Wansford Quay, Cork · 03 / 2017
2014
Up from Earth · National Craft Gallery, Castle yard, Kilkenny · 07-08 / 2014
Ceramics Ireland · Selected Members Exhibition · Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Dublin ·
06-07/ 2014
What a Dish · Blue Egg Gallery Johns Street, Wexford · 04-05/2014
2003 - 2005
Open Studios San Francisco · 121 Noriega Street San Francisco 94122, U.S.A. · 10/ 2003/ 04/05
Awards
Residencies
Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland · Ceramics Residency · Sept 2018 - June 2019
Shanghai University of Fine Art, Shanghai China · Kiln Cast Glass Study Exchange · March 2017 - May 2017
Master Class
2014 · Master Class Lisa Hammond · Two day Workshop - Demonstration Lecture D.C.C.I. Thomastown, Ireland
2013 · Master Class Walter Keeler · Two day Workshop - Demonstration-Lecture D.C.C.I. Thomastown, Ireland
2012 · Master Class Ken Eastman · One day Workshop · Lecture University Limerick, Ireland
2012 · Master Class David Frith · Three day Workshop · D.C.C.I. Thomastown, Ireland
2012 · Ceramics Ireland Raku Workshop · One day Workshop · D.C.C.I. Thomastown, Ireland
U.S.A.
2004 · Molly Prior · Pit Fire Workshop · One day Workshop · Dillion Beach, Tomales, California, U.S.A.
2002 · Master Class Josh De Weese · One day Workshop · C.C.S.F. Fort Mason Campus, San Francisco California, U.S.A.