©Bernie Joyce 2026

Biography

Bernie Joyce is a Connemara-based multidisciplinary artist with a twenty-year practice spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, film, and photography. Rooted in fine art, her work extends through diverse materials and methods, including weaving sculptural forms from bog reeds. Her practice explores relationships between making, place, and lived experience, developing ideas through research, experimentation, and a process-led enquiry that is both intuitive and materially responsive. Working through the Irish language, Joyce brings attention to the often unseen, behind-the-scenes dimensions of the Connemara landscape.

In 2024, she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art from Atlantic Technological University and completed TAP+ Training. She is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Practice.

Joyce received the Graduate Interface Inagh Residency (2024) and the Ealaín na Gaeltachta Bursary Award (2024). Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include BACA Collective at the Laneway Gallery, Cork (2025), Interface Inagh at the Clifden Arts Festival (2025), and K-Fest (2023).

Biography in Irish

Is ealaíontóir ildisciplíneach atá lonnaithe i gConamara í Bernie Joyce a bhfuil taithí fiche bliain aice ar phéinteáil, líníocht, priontáil, scannán agus grianghrafadóireacht. Tá a cuid oibre bunaithe sna mín-ealaíona á fhorbairt trí ábhair agus modhanna éagsúla, lena n-áirítear foirmeacha dealbhóireachta fite as giolcacha portaigh.

Fiosraíonn a cleachtas an chaidrimh idir cruthú, áit agus taithí saoil, ag forbairt smaointe trí thaighde, triail agus fiosrúchán bunaithe ar phróiseas a bhfuil intuigtheacht agus freagracht ábhartha leis. Trí úsáid na Gaeilge, tugann Joyce aird ar na gnéithe den tírdhreach i gConamara a bhíonn minic i bhfolach.

I 2024, bhain sí céim BA (Onóracha) san Ealaín Chomhaimseartha amach ó Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta an Atlantaigh (ATU) agus chríochnaigh sí Oiliúint TAP+ in Ionad Oideachais na Gaillimhe (2024). Faoi láthar tá sí ag freastal ar ATU ag stadéar i gcomhair MA i gCleachtas Chruthaitheach.

Bronnadh Graduate Interface Inagh Residency (2024) ar Joyce chomh maith le Gradam Sparánachta Ealaín na Gaeltachta (2024). I measc na dtaispeántas le déanaí agus atá le teacht tá BACA Collective ag Gailearaí Laneway, Corcaigh (2025), Taispeántas Ballraíochta Interface Inagh ag Féile Ealaíon an Chlocháin (2025) agus Kfest (2023).