About
Bernadette Burns lives and works on Sherkin Island. Her work focuses on memory and change, on how there are many strands and versions of a story, rather than a clear and factual truth. Her work refers to places that have personal meaning or memories. The healing, spiritual and transforming qualities of water hold a special significance; her work often refers to lakes, pools, waterfalls, reservoirs, bays, beaches, shoreline and sea. Her art practice is mainly painting, though she also works with drawing, photography, sculpture, video and book making.
Bernadette Burns was a lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology for many years. She was one of the instigators of BA Visual Art, an innovative honours degree programme delivered by DIT on Sherkin Island. She has exhibited her work in Ireland, Spain and Greece.
Selected Recent Exhibitions
November 2021 The Uncertainty of History: remembering Eileen Quinn, solo exhibition at Kava, Kinvara
January 2020 The Uncertainty of History: remembering Eileen Quinn, solo exhibition at Galway Arts Centre
July 2019 Falling into the Sky, exhibition at O’Drisceoil Galley, Skibbereen with Wendy Dison, Nicola Kelly, Tess Leak and Gana Roberts
May 2019 Falling into the Sky, exhibition at Damer House Gallery, Roscrea with Wendy Dison, Nicola Kelly, Tess Leak and Gana Roberts
July 2018 Anseo, group exhibition at O ‘Drisceoil Building, Skibbereen
May 2018 An island, a boat, a ladder, some cloud..., solo show at Blue House Gallery, Schull
August 2017 West Cork Creates, group show at O’Driscoil Building, Skibbereen and Cork airport
September 2016 Bád, group show with Siún Hanrahan, Patricia Hurl, Fx Murphy, Patricia McKenna and Therry Rudin, invited artist Damer House Gallery, Roscrea
January 2009 Body of Water, with Majella O’Neill Collins, Patricia Hurl, Therry Rudin at Galeria Safia, Barcelona
November 2008 Body of Water, with Majella O’Neill Collins, Patricia Hurl, Therry Rudin at West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen