Bridie Lonie

Bridie Lonie (born 1951 or 1952) is a New Zealand academic, arts educator, arts writer and artist. She lectured in art history and art theory at the Dunedin School of Art (now part of Te Pūkenga), served as head of the school over several periods between 2001 and 2021, and is now an emeritus member of the school. Her art has a particular focus on climate change and environmental issues. She is a graduate of Elam School of Art, where she studied painting and etching and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. She also worked as a book representative for Oxford University Press and a librarian at the Parliamentary library and the Turnbull Library. From 1997 she worked with Evans and the Spiral collective on a video project called Getting Free, about resilience following violation.

In the 1980s Lonie moved back to Dunedin, where she went to teachers' college and taught at Otago Girls High School.

Lonie served as acting head of the school in 2001 and again in 2003–2005; in 2005 she was appointed to the role permanently. From 2013 to 2014 Lonie was the president of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society, and in 2015 she worked on the development group for Ara Toi Ōtepoti Our Creative Future, Dunedin's Arts and Culture Strategy.

In 2019 Lonie returned to the role of head of the Dunedin School of Arts. In 2020 under her leadership the school held a symposium titled Mapping the Anthropocene in Otepoti/Dunedin — Climate change, community and research in the creative arts. She retired at the end of 2021 and was appointed an emeritus member.