Bernadette Boscacci is a practising visual artist based in Townsville, who works across multiple media: drawing, sculpture, printmaking, painting, graphic design and literature. She has worked as a community artist & community cultural development worker in several urban, remote and Indigenous Australian communities since the early 1990’s.

Bernadette started her working career as a Screenprinter’s Assistant / Screenprinter in Sydney, with Redback Graffix in 1988. These were formative years for her as a young artist and the training she received there launched her into formal art studies and her continued engagement in arts activism and community cultural development.

Boscacci has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions within Australia (1987 - current), and enjoys working collaboratively with others. Collaborative partnerships include: enviropairs (with Robyn Sweeney from 2001); M.U.M (Metaphysical Arts Movement with Michelle Hall and members of the Townsville Community from 2003); Potash (with Rhesa Menkens from 2009).

Recycling and the use of found materials, evident in the majority of the works, has always been a part of her practice and continues to be so; she chooses to use recycled materials for practical, aesthetic, economical and philosophical reasons. Bernadette’s interests lie in the arts, social justice, political activism, art therapy, the natural environment / conservation and world peace.