Bonnie Stevens, 7am -10am

Bonnie Stevens

7am -10am

2026

Acrylic on Canvas

60 × 76 cm

$1200

Artist Bio:
Bonnie Stevens is a queer multi-disciplinary artist and publisher based in 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 currently explore her embodied experiences with premature menopause and her relationship with her body.

She was also the founder of design and culture publication, mous magazine, Artistic Director of National Young Writer’s Festival, and has written for outlets such as SBS, Archer magazine, Astray, and Inside Out magazine. Her photography and artwork has been shown in exhibitions at Metro Arts, Hands on Arts Space, the Bardon Fairy House, and Hillvale Photography. 

Artist Statement:
This body of work explores the fractured sense of identity, otherness, and isolation that accompanied an inexplicable experience of premature menopause in the artist’s twenties. The works examine the shifting relationship between body, sexuality, and selfhood that occurs when hormonal change arrives far earlier than expected, disrupting both personal and cultural narratives surrounding femininity and ageing.

Across the series, a composed and natural colour palette sits in tension with frantic, gestural mark-making. This juxtaposition reflects the dissonance between external composure and the internal instability of a body undergoing profound change. The works occupy a space between control and rupture, tracing the emotional and physical fragmentation that can emerge when the body becomes unfamiliar to itself.