Bernadette Cotter is an artist comfortable in her own skin
The detail in Cotter’s pieces is astonishing, and she lets the work reveal itself. “That’s what I seem to do,” she says. “I can’t seem to get away from it. Even in the drawings — the drawings are made up of thousands of little units. Either little dots or words or the same gesture in the work, sometimes repeated over and over. I suppose it’s a kind of meditation.”
Meditation, religion and catharsis are central to Cotter’s practice, as is the idea of her native Ballingeary, in Co Cork.
