Professor Sierra has a 30-year career in the arts. Her research, which takes the form of traditional research outputs and non-traditional research outcomes, explores the intersection of art and nature, the agency of art, and ethics in the creative arts. She is the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.

She has won several grants and awards, including four Category 1 grants: three from the Australia Research Council (a Linkage and two LIEF grants) and an Australian Office of Teaching and Learning Grant. Most recently, she held a Federal Department of Education Grant for the development of Virtual Production education and research in the Faculty's Virtual Production Studio (2022-2024). She has held numerous solo exhibitions within Australia and has participated in over thirty group shows in Australia, the US, and France, resulting in five Australia Council Grants. She received the Highly Commended Award in the 2004 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize, was a finalist in the 2005-2006 McClelland Gallery Contemporary Sculpture Survey & Award exhibition. She won the major prize at the Yarra Array Sculpture Festival, hosted by the City of Melbourne in 2002.

Active as an arts and design writer, Marie also publishes regularly in the fields of fine art and design. Recent examples include the edited book Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales (2024); An Ethical Engagement: Creative Practice Research, the Academy and Professional Codes of Conduct', Research Ethics (ISSN 1747-0161, eISSN 20476094, Sage, 2020, refereed); The Imaginary when Invisible' Eleventh On The Image Conference, Sydney (2020, invited keynote); the edited book Transformative Pedagogies and the Environment: Creative Agency Through Contemporary Art and Design (2018); Pale, Bright and Turquoise Green for White and Brown Goods', SLSAeu Conference, Copenhagen (2018); When Waste Returns: Re-imagining use value in a tidal river', Studio Research, July 2013; Raquel Ormella' Iteration:Again, 13 public art projects across Tasmania, ed. David Cross, Punctum Books NY, 2013; Water as Self', Water: Image International Conference, Plymouth University, UK, July 2012. She has authored numerous essays and reviews for magazines such as Art Monthly, Agenda, Eyeline, Kerb and Meanjin.

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