Annie Stevenson

Annie is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice currently focuses on painting, installation work, digital illustrations, drawing, functional textiles, sculpture, photography, collage and zines

Their works often coincide with original poetry and writing, which relies on strong visual imagery – utilising symbolism in art and literature, as well as surreal and descriptive writing styles and content. Their artistic concepts are developed around themes of emotional introspection (as someone with co-morbid neurodivergence and mental illness), psychology and trauma, family, gender, feminism, and symbolism that is drawn from mythology, religion and visual language.  

Throughout Annie’s academic life, they have studied at university intermittently while experiencing intense bouts of burnout and withdrawing into isolation, resulting in their disconnection with the arts community and creative development. Annie has an incomplete Bachelor of Creative Industries/Fine Art from QUT (2017-2020) and is currently on leave from studying a Bachelor of Design at the University of the Sunshine Coast (2024-current). In joining Access Arts, Annie has found a safe space to begin creating art again and is being helped to facilitate their artistic development and practice within a professional context.  

In 2019 Annie was awarded Incubator’s first prize residency (3 months, September 2019 – November 2019) which culminated in their solo exhibition, Sleep Demons: Reverie of Pink at the Substation in Paddington, Brisbane. Annie has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions in both Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. 

Featured artworks

In The Blood
Insomniac’s Lament (Abandoned by Hypnos)
Here in this womb I’ve made 1 & 2