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Jo Higgins
Art Guide Australia: Home Truths - feature story
Art Guide Australia: Home Truths - feature story
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Jo Higgins
Artlink magazine's 'Hyphen' issue published
Artlink magazine's 'Hyphen' issue published
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Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
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Jo Higgins
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Art Guide Australia

Art Guide Australia: Studio profile of Monica Rani Rudhar

Photo: Hamish Ta-mé for Art Guide Australia.

Studio visits with artists are one of my most favourite things to do. These places of creativity, experimentation, vulnerability, possibility, materiality and sometimes mess are their own form of self-portrait and the chance to visit Monica Rani Rudhar at Parramatta Artists Studio for a profile for Art Guide recently was a true highlight.

You can read it here.

And Monica’s show, Just Like the Real Thing is on at Martin Browne Contemporary until 19 July.

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Art Guide Australia: Tina Havelock Stevens

Tina Havelock Stevens, Cloudage Portal (after De Maistre) #3, 2025. Gloss fibre inket print, pigment paint. Courtesy the artist.

I had the absolute joy of talking to Tina Havelock Stevens recently for a new feature for Art Guide Australia, ahead of her major new exhibition at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

It turns out Tina and I share similarly formative connections to the landscapes of the Central West of NSW, Wiradjuri Country, which only added to the richness of our chat and my appreciation for her work.

Her new show, Now is a Beginning, runs until 22 June 2025. You can read my feature online here.

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Art Guide Australia: Home Truths - feature story

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Illustrations by Caitlin Aloisio Shearer for Art Guide Australia.

My first feature for Art Guide Australia was published in the Jan/Feb issue of the magazine. I’ve always really loved this magazine so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to write for them.

Looking at the implications of the ongoing housing crisis for artists and creatives (an essay commissioned the same week my rent went up again), I spoke with artists Sarah Poulgrain, Keg de Souza, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro and curator and writer and Pari co-director Tian Zhang.

I also looked at this staggering (and largely, staggeringly depressing) major economic study, Artists as Workers, written by David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya and commissioned by Creative Australia. Discoveries like the fact that the gross creative income for a visual artist in Australia in 2021-2022—$22,500—has remained unchanged since 1986 were pretty demoralising but talking to creatives like Sarah and Tian, whose practices are working to reimagine ideas of community and collectivisation, I was reminded again of how important artists and creativity is to everyone’s wellbeing. Now we just need to fund it…

But the article is now online, so you can read it here.

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I acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the unceded land on which I live and work and I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.