Amy Spiers

About

Amy Spiers is a white settler artist researcher of English, Scottish and European Jewish descent currently living and working on the unceded Country of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples in Narrm (Melbourne, Australia). Spiers is a Senior Research Fellow based at RMIT University School of Art and a current recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), undertaking a 3-year research project exploring settler artists' roles and responsibilities in transforming Australian national culture through truth-telling colonial injustices and affirming First Peoples' sovereignties. Spiers has recently co-edited the book, Art and Memorialisation: Truth-Telling Through Creative Practice in Settler Colonial Australia, with Worimi creative, cu