Tina Havelock Stevens

In 2022 she has been commissioned to produce a work for the inaugural exhibition at the new Bundanon museum built at the former home of Australian artist Arthur Boyd in Shoalhaven, New South Wales.

In 2020 she exhibited in 'Afterglow' at the Yokohama Triennale, Japan.

That same year she travelled to the Philippines to drum on a river to make her work 'Beats of Darkness' for the Manila Biennale, Philippines. Part of that work was reconfigured in her dual channel work 'The Rapids' exhibited in The National 2019: New Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

In 2017 Havelock Stevens won the regional Fisher's Ghost Art Award from Campbelltown City Council and came to national attention the following year when she won the 65th Blake Prize for work exploring spirituality, with her video work 'Giant Rock'. The video was made at Landers, California in the Mojave Desert and features her drumming before Giant Rock one of the largest freestanding boulders in the world; a site she described as a "spiritual vortex".

Havelock Stevens played drums in a number of Australian post-punk rock bands notably Plug Uglies, with whom she recorded the EPs Knock Me Your Lobes (1989) and Johnny Panic (1990). and The Titanics with whom she recorded the albums Love is the Devil (2000) and Size Isn't Everything (2000). She also played with Chicks on Speed and Crow. She co-founded the largely instrumental ensemble The Mumps who featured on Triple J unearthed and with whom she has recorded the EP I Wish I was You (2018).

Tina Havelock Stevens (born 1967) is an Australian multi disciplinary artist known for her drumming, documentaries and video works. She often combines improvised live music performances with striking locations that explore spirituality of place.