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"In Ireland, the name Bernadette
Madden is virtually synonymous with batik. That is
so because she has taken a medium that was chiefly
associated with decorative craft and developed it
as a means of artistic expression. In doing so she
has, with exceptional technical virtuosity both revealed
the versatility of batik and exploited its painterly
possibilities as never before. It is evident from
her work that she exercises a remarkable degree of
control over the play of rich, saturated colour and
tonal variations that the technique of fabric dyeing
allows. But she has also immeasurably extended its
conventional range of subject matter and its compositional
possibilities."
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times
(from his introduction to Irish Impressions BASF in Schwarzheide,
Germany 2005)
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