Artist Talk: Hold the world to its word with Sandra Selig & Spence Messih
Join artists Sandra Selig and Spence Messih in a conversation in Hold the world to its word, hosted by exhibition curator, Michael Moran. The artists will discuss their unique approaches to space, materiality, and the transformative potential of art. Selig and Messih will share insights into their practices and reflect on how art holds profound meaning and purpose within today’s world.
Free event, all welcome
Artist Biography
Spence Messih is an artist living and working on Bidjigal and Gadigal land. Through sculpture and text their practice speaks broadly to sites of pressure, materiality, and language and more specifically about these things in relation to their own experience. Messih draws on material tactics of abstraction such as repetition, transformation and cuts/breaks as a way to claim presence within absence and self-recognition within misrecognition.
Sandra Selig works with a range of media — from sound and light works, and small-scale wall pieces; to works on paper and site-specific installations. Her practice, has often explored the discrepancy between seeing and what is se
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Graduating in Visual Arts and Honours in , Sandra Selig has progressed to be one of Brisbane’s most renowned installation artists. Sandra works predominantly in installation and is best known for her linear thread installations, featuring at various exhibitions including and not limited to Circuit, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Selig has featured in a substantial amount of solo exhibitions including; ‘Sleeping Rainbow Interleaves’, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Paddington, NSW, ; ‘Be Some Other Material’, Artspace, Sydney, ; ‘Waves Depend on Us (Light from Tokyo)’, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, ; ‘Invisible Surround’, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Furthermore Selig has contributed in various selected group exhibitions, based predominately throughout Australia. These include most recently ‘Sonic Spheres,’ at the TarraWarra Biennial and at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science at Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Selig’s work does however stretch beyond the continent having been awarded two Artist in Residence Programs; The first; documented in at the International Artist in Residence Program, Guernsey College of Further Education, Art an
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion: 'Infinite Space' development image. Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion, 'Infinite Space', St Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Sandra Selig
Sandra Selig was born in Sydney in and currently lives and works in Brisbane. Her poetic practice observes the cause and effect of natural phenomena such as wind, sound, light, and movement. Working with existing materials, forces and spaces, Selig produces large scale intricate installations and delicate works on paper, often through simple adaptation, subtraction, or ephemeral intervention.
In , the first survey of Selig's work will be held at USC Gallery, Queensland before traveling to UNSW Galleries, Sydney. Other notable exhibitions include The Kaleidoscopic Turn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; and Sonic Spheres, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne. Selig's work is held in major national collections including MONA, Hobart; The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University, Melbourne; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane; and Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane.
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