Tina Havelock Stevens

TINA HAVELOCK STEVENS is an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the complexities of human experience through moving image, sound, performance, photography and installation. Drawing on her background in post-punk music and observational documentary filmmaking, she creates visceral and immersive works that move between the intimate and transcendent, revealing the emotional, social and elemental forces embedded within people and place.

Improvisation, rhythm and duration are central to Havelock Stevens’ practice. Working across image, sound and live performance, she responds intuitively to charged landscapes, histories and architectures, creating works that heighten our awareness of atmosphere and psychological space. Her longstanding relationship with drumming and experimental music brings a distinctive physicality and immediacy to her work.

Recent major projects include Sonic Luminescence, a large-scale sound and light installation at Sydney Metro Martin Place (2024); SHOCKUMENTARY (after Klein), CASSANDRA BIRD, Sydney (2024) and Sydenham International (2023); Nature Extemporize, The Substation, Melbourne (2021); and Thank You for Holding, Carriageworks for Sydney Festival (2021). Her work has also been presented at the Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and The National 2019: New Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney.

Havelock Stevens has undertaken significant public and institutional commissions, including a permanent 32-channel sound installation for Sydney Football Stadium (2022), Hasta La Bella Vista Baby for MCA C3West (2019), Beats of Darkness for the Manila Biennale (2018), and projects for MONA FOMA, Dark Mofo, Performance Space and Bundanon Art Museum.

She is the recipient of the 65th Blake Prize (2018) and 55th Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2017) and was an Artspace Studio Artist in 2024. Havelock Stevens is a member of the MCA Artist Advisory Group, and her work is held in collections including Artbank, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Newcastle Art Gallery and Macquarie Group Collection.