Bonnie-Jean Whitlock is a contemporary painter from rural Southeast Gippsland, she currently lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm.

 

Recognised for her large scale paintings and use of highly saturated colour; her work examines themes of layering, embodiment and place through internal landscapes and surrealist figurative imagery. Bonnie has a keen interest in repurposed and recycled art materials, commonly painting over and modifying existing work; leaving edges raw, hand building frames, and working with what she has on hand. Traces of the material's past life are left evident as an acknowledgement of her ever-evolving relationship with painting and making. This method of layering and repurposing draws comparison and inspiration from the layering of experience and memory sustained within our bodies, geological layering within the stratum of the earth, and layering within history and culture. 

Bonnie is a recent Master of Fine Art graduate from RMIT University (2023) and a recipient of the Evan Lowenstein Arts Management Prize.