Bernadine Fox is a Vancouver-based visual artist, award-winning disability rights activist and mental health advocate, curator, writer, and public speaker. A graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (ECIAD), she constructs powerful visual and narrative works that give voice to trauma, mental health, and social justice issues. Her work—rooted in lived experience—translates complex realities into accessible forms, whether on canvas, in print, or through broadcasting.
Bernadine is the author of Coming to Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist and the long-time host and producer of ReThreading Madness, a syndicated radio show and podcast exploring the lived experience of mental health and trauma through the voices of those who know it first hand. A survivor of childhood and therapeutic abuse, she has been a dedicated mental health advocate for over 30 years, currently volunteering with TELL (Therapist Exploitation Link Line) to support others impacted by therapy abuse.
Her artwork has been shown in solo, duo, and group exhibitions, and is held in private collections across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. She previously served as co-curator of the Britannia Art Gallery, where she brought a trauma-informed and community-centered approach to exhibition-making.
Bernadine is a white settler living and working on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Despite living with PTSD, chronic fatigue, and osteoarthritis, she continues to create, exhibit, speak, and write—believing deeply in the transformative power of storytelling and art to foster change.
Bernadine is available for exhibitions, lectures, workshops, keynotes, and media appearances (radio, podcast, print, and TV).
Bernadine is the author of Coming to Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist and the long-time host and producer of ReThreading Madness, a syndicated radio show and podcast exploring the lived experience of mental health and trauma through the voices of those who know it first hand. A survivor of childhood and therapeutic abuse, she has been a dedicated mental health advocate for over 30 years, currently volunteering with TELL (Therapist Exploitation Link Line) to support others impacted by therapy abuse.
Her artwork has been shown in solo, duo, and group exhibitions, and is held in private collections across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. She previously served as co-curator of the Britannia Art Gallery, where she brought a trauma-informed and community-centered approach to exhibition-making.
Bernadine is a white settler living and working on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Despite living with PTSD, chronic fatigue, and osteoarthritis, she continues to create, exhibit, speak, and write—believing deeply in the transformative power of storytelling and art to foster change.
Bernadine is available for exhibitions, lectures, workshops, keynotes, and media appearances (radio, podcast, print, and TV).
You can find out about Bernadine's
Mental Health Work and Advocacy by visiting her Coming To Voice website
Current Radio program, ReThreading Madness by visiting her RTM website
Mental Health Work and Advocacy by visiting her Coming To Voice website
Current Radio program, ReThreading Madness by visiting her RTM website
Bernadine is a visual artist who weaves colours, objects, and words to constructs ethnographic-based narratives in art as she examines contemporary culture and explores the human condition through visual art, the written word, and facilitating discussions.
Sometimes, a still-life is not just a still-life.
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Haruko Okano (Curator) and Bernadine Fox (co-Curator) talk about the importance of Britannia Art Gallery as a community gallery.
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