CV on request
2025
- Astrid Lorange & Spence Messih, Ghost-writing boyhood: On the self-determination of the trans boy and his haunting of the sex/gender binary, Australian Feminist Studies Journal.
2024
- David Getsy, Unnatural Relations—Queer Abstraction and the Intercourse of Forms in Contemporary Art, 43:08, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
2022
- Robert Cook, Being 'Mediumed': Louis Grant and Spence Messih, Art Monthly Australasia, December/Summer 2022.
- Artist Interview: Conversation with Spence Messih, Murray Art Museum Albury.
2021
- Spence Messih, Double Bind: (Trans)materiality and Tactics of Abstraction, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture.
- Spence Messih, Mathew Jones, as part of ‘Queer Readings of the Monash University Collection'.
2020
- Spence Messih & Vincent Silk, Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Sydney Review of Books.
- Spence Messih, The winds, the wait, as part of ‘Endless Study, Infinite Debt: Protocols for listening in (and after) social isolation’, facilitated by Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange & Andrew Brooks), Liquid Architecture.
2019
- Spence Messih & Archie Barry, Clear Expectations: Guidelines for institutions, galleries and curators working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse artists in Australia, Original Commissioning Partner: Countess, Supporting Partner: NAVA.
- Sebastian Goldspink, Spence Messih and EO Gill, Art Collector.
2018
- Spence Messih, Stars above/concrete below, text part of Primavera 2018, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, AU.
- Andy Butler, Primavera 2018: Young Australian Artists at The MCA, The Monthly.
- Dee Jefferson, These Australian artists are making waves with work that explores the complex, contested issue of identity, ABC Australia.
- Eleanor Zeichner, Primavera, Art Almanac.
- Kate Britton, Spence Messih, Art Collector.
- Talia Linz, Spence Messih, Primavera 2018.
- Amelia Winata, Wayfind, Next Wave Festival X West Space, Emely Baker Building Edinburgh Gardens.
- Caitlin Patane, HERSTORY, THEIRSTORY, Art and Australia.
- Vicki Perin, Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, Memo Review.
- Sophia Cai, Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, Runway Magazine.
2017
- Spence Messih, Some walls fall/out, published on the occasion of ‘Superposition of three types’, curated by Talia Linz and Alexie Glass-Kantor, Artspace, Sydney, NSW, AU.
- Emma Jenkins, THE LOOK BACK - Spence Messih’s Double Take, Runway Magazine. Review
- Jade Muratore, THE LOOK BACK, Framework Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2.
2016
- Spence Messih, Silent Objects Talking, as part of ‘Little Pharma’ by Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. Presentation
2015
- Queer Spritz, in Art Monthly magazine, ‘Feminism Now’ guest-edited by Susan Best and Louise Mayhew, Issue 286 Summer 15/16.
2014
- Isobel Parker Philip, severance & suture [the tabula rasa project], split-solo with Nick Dorey, Sydney Guild. Exhibition text
2013
- Amelia Groom, Mono no aware, curated by SuperKaleidoscope, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. Catalogue essay
- Amelia Groom, Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is moving, MOP Projects. Catalogue essay and Room sheet
2012
- Amelia Groom, Photo-Sculpture - Pictures, objects and paradox, MOP Projects. Catalogue essay