Amy Spiers

Amy is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT School of Art. She is a practicing artist, curator, writer and researcher in the field of public and socially engaged art.

Amy's socially engaged, critical art practice and research aims to prompt questions and debate about present society particularly about the gaps and silences in public discourse where difficult histories and social issues are overlooked or smoothed over.

As an artist, Amy has been commissioned to present numerous art projects across Australia and internationally, including at Fremantle Arts Centre, Monash University Museum of Art (Melbourne), the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), MONA FOMA (Hobart) and the 2015 Vienna Biennale. Additionally, Amy has curated and produced a number of symposia, exhibitions and public engagement programs including "Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices" with Genevieve Grieves and hosted by Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA) in March 2021.

Amy has also published work widely in academic journals, exhibition catalogues and art magazines, including writing for Artlink, Public Art Dialogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Journal of Arts and Communities. Most recently she co-edited "Let's Go Outside: Art in Public" with Charlotte Day and Callum Morton for Monash University Museum of Art (Monash University Publishing 2022) and co-authored "Art/Work: Social Enterprise, Young Creatives & the Forces of Marginalisation" with Dr Grace McQuilten, Associate Professor Kim Humphery and Professor Peter Kelly (Palgrave Pivot, forthcoming 2022).

Industry Experience:
Socially engaged art practice, curating and producing.