Spence Messih

Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]

Claudia Nicholson, Spence Messih and Hissy Fit 3pm: Rolling series of floor talks in the galleries with exhibiting artists Ali Gumillya Baker, Shevaun Wright, Salote Tawale...

Ryan Trecartin Spence Messih Jennifer Baumgardner Archie Barry Giselle...

...absorbent weave, Dement cites (amongst others): Sadie Plant’s cigarette ash; the eye liner of Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, and Nina Hagen; curry stains from Frances Barrett eating in bed; Spence Messih’s spit; and ‘Kathy Acker’s pubic hair soaked in the tears that mourn her’. (Yore’s vision is less...