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BunnyBone

Artist Statement

My work is a deep study of feminine strength, courage, and beauty, driven by a powerful personal journey. With a background in fashion design, I seamlessly blend fashion illustration with fine art to create portraits that are stylish, alluring, and powerfully composed.

Following an unfortunate incident that required me to shave off my long hair, I had to unlearn and relearn notions of confidence and beauty. This led me to create an entirely new art style and series. My art skills, and the depth of meaning in my work, reached a higher level.

In my current series, Golden Nature, I celebrate unconventional and underrepresented beauty by depicting my subjects as bald and dark skinned. My figures are adorned with intricate ornamentation and headwear, inspired by Indonesian tradition. These details transform the aesthetic into something fierce, cool, and highly complex.

I honor my ancestral and national heritage while embracing the present with enthusiasm. I’m on a journey of discovery of the history, diversity, symbolism and magic of Indonesian craft. This series reconnects me with my roots, in an almost spiritual way. I am influenced by traditional jewellery from Bali, Java, Sumatra and Timor.

My art is for those who appreciate the mysterious and nuanced beauty of the feminine spirit. I invite you to look closer at the resilience captured within these powerful figures.

Artist Biography

Bunny Bone aka Bianca Timmerman is a contemporary artist based in Bali, Indonesia. The core of her artistic vision is guided by the values of courage, strength, and beauty.

Born in Jakarta in 1985, she relocated to Bali island in 2008. She is a graduate of Fashion Design at ESMOD, Jakarta. She started her career in the fashion industry at various international companies and brands. From 2015 to 2020, she worked as a fine art curator at an established gallery in Seminyak, Bali. In 2020, she founded Rumah Rabbit, an art school for kids and adults, while refining her art practice. She teaches painting and drawing while mentoring her team of Indonesian women.

Bunny Bone's work evolved from portraits to dynamic body gestures and movement. It involves acrylic depictions of unconventional and underrepresented beauties. She blends traditional Indonesian elements with modern fashion. She also draws digital illustrations of Brazilian Jujitsu (BJJ) figures where she styles her BJJ subjects in batik motifs.

Style: Contemporary Portraiture

Mediums: Traditional - Acrylic