Bernadette Doolan in conversation with Aoibhie McCarthy- GOMA Gallery, Waterford by GOMA Waterford

Podcast of Aoibhie McCarthy in conversation with Bernadette Doolan at GOMA Waterford.

Exhibition; The House That Built Me - Bernadette Doolan

Award winning Irish artist Bernadette Doolan, living in Wexford, is winner of the best overall work by a non-Academician 2015, and winner of the Irish News 2018 award for depicting Ireland today, in The Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition. In 2019 won the Rosemary & co award with the Society Women artists, London.

Bernadette was selected for The Ruth Borchard self-portrait Exhibition, the UK’s only public collection of self-portraits by British and Irish artists. The Ruth Borchard Collection represents the very best of twentieth century and contemporary self-portraiture.

Aoibhie McCarthy

Aoibhie McCarthy is the newly appointed Artistic Director of Sample-Studios, Cork City. She also holds the position of Marketing & Development Manager of Cork International Film Festival, Ireland's largest film festival, a role she has held since 2018 when she became the Business to Arts Fundraising Fellow. After graduating with a B.A in Art History, Architectural History and English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, she worked in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Gallery Number One, Dublin Contemporary and Whyte's Auctioneers before securing the prestigious Shinnors Curatorial Scholarship, an M.A tracking PhD research scholarship by practice in the role of Education Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art and eva International Biennale. She led visual arts programming at Galway Fringe Festival and undertook project management roles as part of significant national initiatives such as The Year of Irish Design 2015 and the National Adult Learners’ Festival 2016. In 2016, she was appointed Visual Arts and Outreach Manager of Garter Lane Arts Centre and Garter Lane Studios in Waterford, where she is currently on the board of Waterford Youth Arts.