Rate My Professor Terri Bird

Since 2002, she has collaborated extensively with Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell under the collective Open Spatial Workshop (OSW), which secured the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in 2005. Notable OSW projects include the exhibition Converging in time at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in 2017, investigating entanglements of geology, geography, colonisation, resource extraction, and philosophical thought via specimens from Museum Victoria's Natural Sciences Collection. Additional accolades for OSW encompass finalist status in the National Works on Paper in 2018, the AAANZ Best University Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue Prize in 2018, and winner of the Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards (Major) in 2018. Terri Bird has contributed key essays such as 'Forming' in Practising with Deleuze: Design, Dance, Art, Writing, Philosophy (2017), 'Registering Surfaces, Excavating Inheritances' in Deleuze Studies (2016), 'Figuring Materiality' in Angelaki (2011), and 'Exhibiting Practices & Organizational Relations' in Making Space (2007). Her artistic works feature in exhibitions like the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1994, Signs of Life in 1999, and Skinned in 2004. She has organized events such as the West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial in 2009 and engages in artist-initiated activities including CLUBSproject. Current and recent projects include Metabolic Scales (2023), found and made: life, art, things (2022), Relational Ecologies (2024), and Climate Aware Creative Practices (2023). As an accredited graduate research supervisor, she accepts PhD students and contributes to research on materiality, spatial practice, Deleuze, geology, the Anthropocene, and geo-social assemblages.