Formerly Nick’s Spaghetti House, 2 seconds, 2020.
Single Moms Chilling Park, public art installation, Mother’s Day, May 9, 2021.
Jackson, 2005-2021, 190 seconds, 2021.
Dismantle and build, 2020, 11×17″, 2-colour silk screen print, open edition. I designed and printed this poster in solidarity with decolonial and anti-racist abolitionist organizing in 2020 and every year. Posters are available for purchase, with all proceeds going to Vancouver prisoner justice groups.
Front and back covers of Non-Regular.
Front and back covers of Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2018. Back image is by Josh MacPhee. Photo by Joni Taylor.
"I can't subsidize the university with my labour" by Ernesto (pseudonym for an ECU sessional instructor) and Terra Poirier, 2018.
I can’t subsidize the university with my labour, by Ernesto (pseudonym for an ECU sessional instructor) and Terra Poirier, 2018.
Elizabeth MacKenzie, Sessional Instructor, 210 seconds, 2018
Murakami Maintenance, 45 seconds, 2018.
Boback, 30 seconds, East Vancouver, 2018.
Memory Block, 2017, digital composite of pinhole photographs for projection and artist book (scanned from film and phototransfer).
Caution, 2017, 50″x24″, edition of 5. Shortlisted for the Capture Festival’s 2018 Canada Line Public Art Competition.
Fly Under, 2016, 30×24″ c-print on dibond, unique. Shortlisted for the 2017 Lind Prize.
From Are you sure? Volume 1, 2015, coptic stitch binding, unique.
From Are you sure? Volume 3, 2015, coptic stitch binding, unique.
Likes to show off, 2014, phototransfer on wood, mixed media assemblage, detail.
Polyphemus, 2012, 16×16″ inkjet print.

Terra Poirier

Interdisciplinary artist working with pinhole photography, artist books and installation to explore labour, contested space, memory and storytelling.