Spice Van

Name: Spice
Location: Sydney
Title: ‘Spice VAN Go’
Price: $200
Size: 15cm x 6.5cm x 5cm

Bio: SPICE…also referred to as the BANDIT QUEEN has stamped her name on every HipHop element with knowledge that stems from her history as a bgirl, mc, graffiti writer, artist, youth worker, mother and mentor.

She is the only Australian member of the STICK UP GIRLZ and holds several titles under her belt… Spice was…

• Australia’s 1st female mc to be pressed to vinyl.
• The 1st Australian MC to have a track added to the soundtrack of a movie.
• One of the 1st to support an International Mc on an Australian Tour. (Ice T-1989)
• Immortalised in the Powerhouse Museums ‘Back to the 80s’ exhibition alongside icons such as INXS, Michael Jackson, Split Enz etc in which her feature became a permanent residency of the museum
• Helped establish legal walls throughout Western Sydney.
• Pioneered as an Outreach Through Art teacher..
• Represented Australia in Berlin at the 2008 We Be Girls Festival.
• A writer for Hell Yeah Magazine 
• Host of her own radio show ‘SheRock’ on 2SER fm
• Helped paint the 1st ever mural on the National Black Theatre in Harlem NY 

Currently less active due to complications stemming from an accident in 2011 which left her with a permanent disability, chronic pain and CRPS (a malfunction of the nerves) her days of painting are now a harder task but she continues to push through n get creative whenever she can, boombox in hand.