Dr Bonnie Stevens is a multi-disciplinary artist, academic, and publisher based in Naarm (Melbourne). She completed her Doctorate at RMIT where her practice research focused on telling stories of marginalisation through interdisciplinary arts publishing.

As a visual artist, her abstract works explore her embodied experiences of premature menopause which she experienced in her twenties. Her works frequently feature composed and natural colour palettes which sit in tension with frantic, gestural mark-making.

Her photography and artwork have been shown in various galleries in Brisbane and Melbourne. As a writer, her work has been published for outlets such as SBS, Archer magazine, Astray, and Inside Out magazine. In 2017 she was short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award at the Queensland Literary Awards.

Bonnie was the founding editor of design and culture publication, mous magazine, former Artistic Director of National Young Writer’s Festival, and is currently the director at Hakka Guest House.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Winter Glow. Brunswick Street Gallery. 11th July - 26th July 2026. Melbourne.

Artist creating an abstract painting with bold, textured brushstrokes in warm colors on a large canvas in a studio. Art supplies, including a painter's palette with mixed colors, tubes of paint, and a palette knife, are scattered on a white cloth cov
A woman with short auburn hair, wearing a black long sleeve top and a brown patterned dress, is sitting on the floor in an art gallery, looking thoughtfully at paintings on the wall, with her hand resting near her chin.
A person with long, curly hair bends forward in front of two large, abstract expressionist paintings hanging on a white wall. The paintings are colorful, with one featuring autumnal colors and the other in darker shades.
Two abstract paintings with thick, textured brushstrokes in warm earth tones, leaning against a white wall next to a wooden chair with a curved backrest.