Media Quotes:

"A new talent that will illuminate the artworld over the next decade... Bernadette Louise addresses contemporary issues of identity in thought-provoking and innovative ways".
- THE FIERCE FESTIVAL

"We've had the pleasure of telling you about Bernadette Louise before, with her phone call art and performance, she's always worth checking out, always stimulating... Bernadette Louise explores themes of feminine control and lack of control..."
- ORGAN MAGAZINE

"Only a Phone Call Away is an engaging, original piece that specifically addresses the relationship between physical and digital environments whilst foregrounding some everyday intimacies in a playful, intriguing manner...affective and provocative and provides unique encounters for audiences of Intimacy."
- INTIMACY: Across Visceral and Digital Performance at GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE.

"Having been labeled "the future" by the Fierce Festival, 'accused' of being a Confrontationalist by education institutions, pigeonholed as Feminist, an Anti-Feminist, a Sexual Terrorist and an Irrational Housewife, one would still struggle to place this multimedia artist in a box; she is genre-less. Her unwavering appeal is her honesty and dedication to speaking the emotional and physical truth in a creatively dramatic and theatrical way."
- VIANN&VIOLET Art & Music

 

Biography

Bernadette Louise began her performance art career working with some of the most important names in the field, including Ron Athey, Lydia Lunch and Nicole Blackman. Since building a strong rapport with International Live Art Festival Fierce Earth, she has developed her own experimental and boundary pushing style of contemporary art. Intrigued by themes of restriction, voyeurism and theatre, Bernadette draws upon personal, but often commonplace experiences. She delves stilettos first in to the heart of the domestic and sexual identity.

Bernadette Louise delves stilettos first in to the heart of the domestic and sexual identity. Having been labeled "the future" by the Fierce Festival, 'accused' of being a Confrontationalist, pigeonholed as Feminist, an Anti-Feminist, a sexual terrorist and an irrational housewife, people still struggle to place this multimedia artist in a box; she is genre-less. Her unwavering appeal is her honesty and dedication to speaking the emotional and physical truth in a creatively dramatic and theatrical way.

For a CV and Chronolgy of past Art Works and Employment click HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Petticoat Nightmares - Oestrogen Xenoestrogen. 'eROTic' at the Barbican Gallery, London, 26th August 2010 (As part of the Surreal House Exhibition running from 10th June).

About her Current work: "By constructing a backdrop suggestive of the maternal/home environment and emphasising the brutal female body as a confine, I depict what really goes on behind closed doors, within our minds and beneath our skin. A human reaction to feeling penned in, whether that trap is a kitchen, a body or an emotional state of restriction and manipulation. The repetitive but necessary torture of housework and gynaecology are key issues in recent works,, important points in mine and many others lives. I use personal experience and commonplace imagery to connect with audiences, about honest and often taboo subject matter. I feel a need to acknowledge the differences and restrictions our bodies can have on us; a desire that will never manifest itself in anything other than an artwork." BL.

 

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