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Associate Professor Terri Bird is an artist and academic at Monash University's Department of Fine Art, within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Her research explores sculptural practices that interrogate material dynamics and their intersections with geology, colonisation, and the Anthropocene. She co-founded OSW (Open Spatial Workshop), recipients of the 2005 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, known for works like Converging in Time (2017) at MUMA. Bird holds a PhD in Visual Culture (2007) from Monash, alongside earlier degrees from RMIT and the University of Melbourne.
Her research interests emphasize material force and ethics, with projects analyzing resource extraction, territorial politics, and feminist materialism. Notable collaborations include the West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial (2009) and ongoing work with OSW on geo-social assemblages. Bird has authored essays such as Registering Surfaces, Excavating Inheritances (2016) and contributed to exhibitions addressing climate-aware creative pedagogy and sustainable art practices.
Awards include the 2018 National Works on Paper Prize finalist recognition and the AAANZ Best Exhibition Catalogue Prize. Her work bridges studio practice with critical theory, advocating for art's role in addressing environmental and colonial histories. Current research priorities include Climate Aware Creative Practices, focusing on ethics of making and decolonial perspectives.
Terri Bird supervises graduate research and has led projects funded by Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates sculpture, installation, and curatorial practice to explore urgent contemporary issues.
