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Bernadette O\u2019Toole is an artist and Lecturer in Fine Art at Lancaster University. Her practice explores the relationship between the space of painting and writing, re-evaluating the disciplinary codes, conventions, and discourses that underpin spatial and temporal readings of painting and poetry. More broadly, Bernadette is interested in how image and text are read; how meaning emerges from the complex relationship between word, image, and sound. Alongside her painting practice, recent experimental writing operates across genres – oscillating between creative, critical, and philosophical modes of expression.<\/p>\n
Bernadette O\u2019Toole was awarded a British Academy Education Bursary to study for a Master of Fine Art at Newcastle University, and the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Doctoral Fellowship at Sheffield Hallam University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, she was shortlisted for The Liverpool Art Prize <\/em>2011, and Marmite Painting Prize <\/em>in 2011 and 2016. Her work is held in collections in the UK, Europe, and USA, Artist\u2019s books are held in British Library, London, The Tate Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, London, Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale, Paris, and CdLA, St-Yrieix-la-Perche, Paris.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Research<\/strong><\/p>\n Her doctoral research,\u202f<\/em>Beyond the Space of Painting and Poetry: Mallarm\u00e9 and the Embodied Gestur<\/em>e<\/em>, conceived as a series of dialogues with the French symbolist poet St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9, re-imagines the space of painting through the space of poetry\u2014through a network of reciprocal relations manifest in Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s spatialised poetics. Bernadette uses performative strategies to engage with Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s poem,\u202fUn coup de D\u00e9s jamais n\u2019abolira le Hasard<\/em>\u202f<\/em>(A throw of the Dice will never abolish Chance), drawing attention to the metaphoric possibilities of the space of the page and of the book. Her work operates across painting and writing, leading to the production of painting installations, artist books, and multiple video installations.<\/p>\n Thesis: <\/strong>https:\/\/shura.shu.ac.uk\/29556\/<\/a><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u202f\u202fwww.mbotoole.co<\/a><\/p>\n \nRecent exhibitions: <\/strong>Refractive pool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2022<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/refractivepool<\/a><\/p>\n \n