About
Spenser Paul is a Narram (Melbourne) based queer man (He/Him) who works primarily within the medium of photography, specialising in the contemporary Australian landscape and documenting our ongoing relationship with the stolen land we live on and how it relates to the economic realities facing Australians.
His work is mostly long-form documentary working with communities and spaces in rural areas of Australia. First shown in his debut solo show ‘A Road to Nowhere’ in April of 2019 exhibited by Gallery 17 in St Kilda as well as being shortlisted in the 2019 and 2021 and a finalist in the 2022 Australian Photography Awards and displayed in 2019, 2021 and 2022 Centre for Contemporary Photography annual salon. Spenser graduated from the RMIT Photography Bachelors Program in 2021 and the Honours Program in 2022. His Honours body of work ‘Road Noise was a finalist in the Ballarat International Photo Biennial Grad Photo 2022 Award.
Spenser’s current and ongoing body of work is the investigation of the historical, cultural, and environmental factors that shape the identity of motorcycling subcultures within the context of the post-myth. Spenser’s project Road Noise is an investigation that contextualises and documents individual subcultures within motorcycling and their relationship to an original myth and how that myth has been commodified. The project took place across The United States in 2022.