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
Writings
Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
Writings
Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, ...
ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, breathing artwork on Minjerribah
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Jo Higgins
Art Collector: Pull Focus interview with Abdul ...
Art Collector: Pull Focus interview with Abdul Abdullah & Abdul-Rahman Abdullah

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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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ABC Arts: Lauren Brincat, When do I breathe?

I'm really focused this year on trying to tell stories about the contribution that art, artists and creativity can play in making the world a more thoughtful, responsive, inclusive and, well, better place.

Lauren Brincat's current exhibition at The Lock-Up in Newcastle was the perfect opportunity to reflect on the extraordinary work she did over 2023-2024 across the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct considering ideas of care, public space and safety, community in collaboration with healthcare workers and local creatives. It was a joy to travel to Newcastle to experience the exhibition, to talk to Lauren and to write about it for the ABC. You can read the story here.

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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 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.