Writings, News
Jo Higgins
Routledge publication: Youth Programs in Art ...
Routledge publication: Youth Programs in Art Museums - An International Perspective
Writings
Jo Higgins
Art Guide Australia: Field Notes. A Grassroots ...
Art Guide Australia: Field Notes. A Grassroots Approach to Public Art
Events, Review, News
Jo Higgins
Berlin trip: Connected Audiences Conference and ...
Berlin trip: Connected Audiences Conference and some Art, Art, Art....
Writings, News
Jo Higgins
Art Guide Australia: Home Truths - feature story
Art Guide Australia: Home Truths - feature story
News, Writings
Jo Higgins
Artlink magazine's 'Hyphen' issue published
Artlink magazine's 'Hyphen' issue published

Art Guide Australia

Art Guide Australia: The Beguiling Art of the Boyd Women

I will take any opportunity to write about Bundanon. It’s so truly a place for artists and the work and exhibitions it generates is so profoundly connected to that place, materially, creatively and intellectually.

It was a joy to visit and write about their current exhibition The Hidden Line: The Art of the Boyd Women for Art Guide Australia. You can read my feature online here.

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Art Guide Australia: Field Notes. A Grassroots Approach to Public Art

These are my favourite kinds of stories to tell. Artists and creatives re-thinking ideas of community, public space, ways of doing. Artists who are equal parts curious, ambitious and gentle. Artists who believe that art and culture and creativity can be tools for wellbeing, community building and lasting change.

I loved the expansive conversations I had with Heidi and Hugo in the writing of this piece and I’m really grateful to Art Guide Australia for commissioning it. You can read it online here. In many ways it feels like a book-end to the piece I wrote for their Jan-Feb issue on the impact of the housing crisis on artists and creatives, so I appreciate that long lens take on an issue too.

And you can read more about MAPA and the Open Field Agency here, too.

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Art Guide Australia: Material curiosities, MCA Primavera

My feature on MCA Australia’s 34th iteration of their annual Primavera exhibition has just been published by Art Guide. I truly loved having the opportunity to speak with artists Keemon Williams and Frances Carmody in the writing of this piece.

You can read it online here.

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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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I live and work on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Bidjigal people and acknowledge their unbroken connection to this Country. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders, past and present, because this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.