Bonnell is a Senior Curator at QUAD, Derby UK where he has worked since 2012.  He has over 15 years experience in curatorship, and previously worked as a visual artist, exhibiting work in the UK, across Europe and in the US. Bonnell has led on a range of projects at QUAD, including the mass participation film work Derby Soap Opera with the artist and filmmaker Marinella Senatore involving almost 15,000 Derby residents; group exhibitions Illuminated; The Pride and the Passion: Contemporary Art, Football andThe Derby County Collection and the AI/robot themed exhibition Our Friends Electric.  He has curated and organised solo shows at QUAD including projects by Lindsay Seers; Benedict Drew; susan pui san lok; Susan MacWilliam, and Joey Holder. He has also managed and curated a number of digitally focused projects at QUAD – including the immersive AR gallery-based game-experience Glitched: Quest for the Lost MacGuffin; the interactive installation What a Loving and Beautiful World by Japanese digital art collective teamLab; the digital installation Line Segment Space by Korean based Kimchi and Chips, and most recently a new VR commission by the American artist and digital art pioneer Rebecca Allen. Prior to 2012,  Bonnell  was curator at ArtSway, working on exhibitions by artists such as Nathaniel Mellors; Hew Locke; Christopher Orr; Gayle Chong Kwan; Jamie Shovlin; Anne Hardy; Beate Gutshow amongst others. Whilst there, he worked on a number of digital-focused projects by artists such as boredomresearch, and Gibson/Martelli. With ArtSway Director Mark Segal, Bonnell co-curated along the New Forest Pavilion at the 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 Venice Biennales. He studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University, graduating in 1995, and completed an MFA in Art (majoring in painting) at the University of Arkansas in 2002. In 2004 he graduated with an MA (RCA) in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London; for the final graduate exhibition at the RCA Peter co-curated This much is certain, working directly with the artists Jeremy Deller and Dexter Dalwood.