Terri Bird
Terri is an artist and lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Monash University. Her practice investigates materiality, as a way of re-thinking of the relations of matter outside the customary binaries of form, meaning and content, to reconfigure the production of sites and situations differently. Her works have been included in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 1994, Signs of Life, 1999, and Skinned, 2004.
Since 2003 Terri has worked collaboratively with Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell as OSW, winners of the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in 2005. In 2009 OSW instigated the west Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, a multifaceted event exploring the interrelated potential that connects the generation and presentation of art practices.
An interest in experimenting with the conditions of art’s production and presentation motivates her involvement in artist-initiated activities such as CLUBSproject, of which she was a founding member in 2002. In 2007 Terri completed a PhD through the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University on art’s relation to materiality. She has published catalogue essays on the works of Ardi Gunawan and Bianca Hester, and has an essay forthcoming in Angelaki on the work of Fiona Abicare.
