Dr Amy Spiers

Dr Amy Spiers is an artist, curator, writer and researcher living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation in Narrm (Melbourne, Australia). She is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT School of Art (2022-24), where she is engaged in research that explores the critical capacities of public and socially engaged art, and how such art practices might generativity address difficult colonial histories and social relations between Indigenous and settler peoples in Australia. With Worimi researcher, artist and filmmaker, Genevieve Grieves, Amy co-convened the online symposium, "Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices", that was hosted by Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA) in March 2021.