Terry Starr is a Tsimshian Nation artist from the Gispaxlo'ots tribe of British Columbia, Canada.
Subsequent to completing a college business course in 1982, Starr purchased two adzes and three knives, his first carving tools.
Tim Paul of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation and Richard Hunt of the Kwakwaka’wakw people were among the first to influence Starr on the basic techniques of carving wood.
[1] On two separate occasions Starr has been contracted to construct a full-scale replicas of a traditional Tsimshian bighouse.
One was for the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, and the other was onsite at the Port Simpson village where he grew up.