Bernadette’s artworks and projects are contemporary and rooted in northern Australia, shaped by ongoing relationships with the region’s natural, social, cultural, and unseen landscapes.

Working across sculpture, drawing, weaving, painting, poetry, installation, and collaborative practice, she attends to relationships between people, place, and the more-than-human world.

Trees, landscape, conservation and regeneration, transformation, pattern and weaving, the wild, and the interconnected cycles of love and loss, life and death are recurring threads throughout her work.

Since the mid-1990s, Bernadette has worked as an artist-in-residence with community groups and organisations, local and state government bodies, allied health centres, and educational institutions across North Queensland.

These collaborations have centred on teaching, facilitating, and learning through shared creative practice. They continue to inform her work, shaping an approach grounded in exchange, observation, and connection.

The Mundy Creek Natureway Regeneration Project is a site specific, multidisciplinary (arts, environment, health and cultural heritage), community initiative.

The project aims to reinvigorate, develop and maintain the environmental and cultural values, and the recreational and nodal aspects of an area of land (including the waterways) along Mundy Creek in Thindanga / Garbutt. An expanding group of community stakeholders have been contributing to its development and implementation.

Kowanyama, Gulf of Carpentaria with Abm Elgoring Ambung, Kowanyama Community, Lands Office and School, Apunipima Health Council and others.