Three pieces of my work, including “Long Shadows”,  have been accepted by the Jeffrey Leder Gallery in  Long Island City, New York, USA,  for their juried exhibition “International Painting 111”  The exhibition opens on the 23rd February and continues until the 23rd March.Long Shadows : Wax resist on linenIntPaint3_invite copy-2

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The Graphic Studio Gallery`s Winter Exhibition 2013 opens on Thursday 6th December. Featuring the work of over 50 printmakers, both studio members and invited artists, the show runs until 25th January 2014. Inspired by one of the small greenhouses in the Botanic Gardens, Dublin ,my latest screenprint “Greenhouse” is one of the works in the exhibition.Greenhouse : Screenprint on paper : Bernadette Madden

You are cordially invited to the opening of  A language manycoloured, in Gormley`s Fine Art, 25 South Frederick St, Dublin 2 on Thursday 28th November  2013, from 6.30-8.30pm. The artists in the show, which I have curated for Gormleys Fine Art, are:

Veronica Bolay RHA   John Hearne   Bernadette Madden   Eoin Mac Lochlainn   John O` Connor and  John O`Reilly

My wax resist on linen `Sloping Slates` is one of the pieces in the exhibition

Sloping Slates : Wax resist on linen : Bernadette Madden

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The Festive Season is rapidly approaching  …..Solomon Fine Art`s Christmas Exhibition will open on Thursday  November 21st, in their gallery in Balfe Street Dublin 2. The show features painting, print, sculpture, glass and a range of small and affordable art by gallery and invited artists. I will have three Screenprints on display, including` White Elephant`.

White Elephant : Screenprint on Paper : Bernadette Madden

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Come along to the opening of this exhibition, in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, which promises to be a really interesting show

One hundred artists have been inspired by the gardens to each produce a print. The prints are a uniform size and will cost €100 each unframed.

My screenprint, `A Spotlight on the Gardens` will be in the exhibition.

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The Opera Festival Exhibition opens in Greenacres, Selskar, Wexford , on the 18th October and runs until the end of November. Three of my works will be in the show, including ‘  Yellow Cushions ” , which is a batik on linen.Bernadette Madden : Yellow Cushions : Wax resist on linen

A  new gallery, SO Fine Art Editions, has just opened at 10, South Anne Street, Dublin 2. Run by Catherine O` Riordan, (who ran the very successful Graphic Studio Gallery for a number of years), the gallery specialises in original fine art prints, ceramics, photography and sculpture by established and emerging artists, both Irish and International.  SO Fine Art Editions will show some of my work, including “Pathway”, a screenprint on fabriano paper.Bernadette Madden : Screenprint on paper : 49 X 47 : Varied edition  18

Thomas P O`Neill 111,Loretta Brennan Glucksman and Aidan Hume

Thomas P O`Neill 111,Loretta Brennan Glucksman and Aidan Hume

Aidan Hume  recently presented “Across the Foyle ” to Loretta Brennan Glucksman , on behalf of the University of Ulster and the Hume and O`Neill families, to thank her for hosting an event in her home, in NYC, to celebrate the University of Ulster`s plans to establish the John Hume and Thomas P. O`Neill Chair in Peace at its Magee Campus in Derry-Londonderry. The batik is part of a series I made of Derry and its surroundings and was on exhibition in gordon gallery, Derry.

Photo credit: James Higgins

The exhibition  “Little Gems”,   takes place in Solomon Fine Art ,Balfe Street, Dublin 2, from Friday 26th July until Friday 16th August. “Little Gems” shows small and affordable work ( prices range from €150-€1,200 ) by twenty three gallery and invited artists.”Kinsale Rocks” a screen print on paper is one of five pieces of my work included in the exhibition.Bernadette Madden : Kinsale Rocks : Screenprint on paper : 24 X 34 cm : varied edition 12