And The Green Curtains Shut, 2025
Mixed media installation with audio
And the Green Curtains Shut’ explores personal grief and memory through spatial composition. She (re)creates semi-fictional interiors inspired by her late grandmother's flat, playing with reflections of loss, familial characters and moments in time.
She includes objects from her family’s past, including pieces of a shed roof, a 1960s train track, and a broken grandfather clock, among specifically crafted works: a cross-stitch embroidery, hand-carved wooden plaque, a life-scale drawing of a fireplace, a clay cast of apple halves and a digitally printed curtain to (re)create a personalised domestic environment.
Bird is interested in how identity is embodied in objects and how memories and persons can be relived or revisited through specifically curated spaces. She attempts to use this work to process her grandmother's passing and interrogate complex family histories as a third-generation Holocaust survivor.
