Jo Higgins

April 23, 2025

Writings

Art Guide Australia: Tina Havelock Stevens

Jo Higgins

April 23, 2025

Writings

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.

Sydney Morning Herald: "A lesson in listening"

Jo Higgins

July 20, 2023

Writings

My article about exhibition, The Polyphonic Sea, at Bundanon Art Museum for the Sydney Morning Herald. You can read it online here.

Art Party at The Condensery

Jo Higgins

July 4, 2023

Events

Last weekend saw the culminating public program for ‘Things I Want To Say’ at The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery.

This has been a 12-month long program that I’ve had the absolute joy of co-developing and helping to realise. You can read more about my involvement here.

Some photos from the weekend below:

Photos: Jim Filmer. Courtesy The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery

The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery: new youth engagement project - 'Things I Want To Say'

Jo Higgins

August 28, 2022

I’m really excited to be working alongside curator Rachel Arndt to help develop and deliver a pilot youth engagement project for The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery, in Toogoolawah, Queensland.

Over the next year I’ll be supporting Rachel and several artists to run workshops for local young people, inspired by the ideas and artists involved in the May 2023 exhibition, Things I Want to Say, curated by Rachel and Imogen Dixon-Smith.

'Things I want to say' will bring together six emerging artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society.

The first of these workshops was yesterday and we had such a fantastic group of local young people, who worked alongside artist Sid McMahon and myself to start teasing out some of these conversations and experiences for themselves.

I’m looking forward to everything that’s to come.

ABC Arts: Dean Cross and a spotlight on the work of Australia's regional galleries

Jo Higgins

August 8, 2021

Writings

Multi-disciplinary artist Dean Cross’s current exhibition, Icarus My Son at Goulburn Regional Gallery, and the inaugural biennial award he received that made it possible, were the perfect jumping off point for a bigger conversation about the role and contribution of our regional galleries to their local communities and the early stage careers of so many artists. I was so thrilled to have the opportunity to write this story for ABC Arts. You can read it here.

Dean Cross, Icarus My Son, Goulburn Regional Gallery. Image courtesy the gallery.

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