Author: bernadette

Homeless at Home

at The House of Smalls Gallery Edinburgh, running during the Fringe Festival Disability and homelessness: The idea for using tents in my work began when I wanted to raise a physical awareness of homelessness by placing life-size tents outside the local authority housing offices, each tent representing a member of my household, my family. ‘Homeless […]

Being Well Strategic Group

Today the All Age Autism Strategy for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, is an agenda item on the Worcestershire Being Well Strategic group meeting. I am led to believe that this is something of a reorganisation and a newish meeting, but it sits beneath the Health and Wellbeing Board. Last year i attended the Health and Wellbeing […]

The Ascent of Man

at The House of Smalls Gallery Edinburgh I am so pleased to be part of such a wonderful group of female artists in this very powerful show ‘The Ascent of Man’. My constant fight against the patriarch and systemic injustices, I exhibited pieces about Local Authority Housing, disability discrimination and Autism. This exhibition showcases the […]

Mixtape No.9

Mixtape No.9 is the latest group show from Cultivate, once again curated by Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall. Please do go explore, go find out more (and yes, there is a Spotify playlist to go with ot all again as well) What about the labels on each piece of art? What are you looking at? Is it a […]

Welfare cuts

Just some thoughts: as of this time of day, around 7am 18th March. I tried to phone Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 live show for the first time yesterday. There have been many times i have wanted to, this time i did. I couldn’t get through of course, i assume because of huge swathes of callers […]

Ofsted & CQC report outcome

“Widespread and Systematic Failings” OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM WORCESTERSHIRE PARENT CARER FORUM The result & findings of the Ofsted & CQC inspection align with the perspectives shared by our members and ourselves, which makes them unsurprising. As representatives of the Parent Carer community, we are deeply troubled by the findings of the Ofsted & CQC report […]

MIXTAPE No.7

Cultivate Gallery Thank you again to Cultivate’s Sean Worral and Emma Harvey for putting so much effort and passion in to curating a wonderfully selected online exhibition. And thank you to all of the other amazing artists that i am lucky enough to share the Mixtape 7 online gallery exhibition with. It is always a […]

updated art bio

About my art career: I am a multidisciplinary artist, working across live art, installation, photography, sculptural/collage, and sound/video. I have always made work that represents life experiences, no matter how personal and painful. The work often takes the form of a visceral delving in to the domestic, medical and social realms.  I spent my art […]

Autism Resources

Here are several links and resources that i have worked on: The LeDer programme that now includes adults with an autism diagnosis Sensory Friendly Environments in GP surgeries Through the Autistic Lens:  Making a Difference:  The Sensory System:  Improving the Lives of Autistic People: