Terri Bird

Terri Bird artist and writer living on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm (Melbourne). My research focuses on sculptural practices that connect art’s material operations to matter’s potential force and dynamics. This project owes a debt to the rethinking of material relations that has been a focus of feminist philosophers seeking to problematize understandings of matter outside its customary associations with form, content and meaning. I have worked collaboratively with Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell as Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) for over 20 years. Our most recent work is ‘Metabolic Scales’ 2023, in ‘Earthen’ at Cement Fondu, Sydney. I have also published essays in Deleuze Studies Journal, Angelaki, and Studies in Material Thinking, and I’m an Associate Professor in Fine Art at Monash University.

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Metabolic Scales (2023) Photo by Jessica Maurer

Converging in Time (2017) Photo by Andrew Curtis

Converging in Time (2017) Photo by Andrew Curtis