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
Writings, Events
Jo Higgins
Art Collector: Pull Focus interview with Abdul ...
Art Collector: Pull Focus interview with Abdul Abdullah & Abdul-Rahman Abdullah

Writings

ABC Arts: Thinking Together at Bundanon

Detail of Keg de Souza’s Growth in the Shadows, 2025.

I was down on Dharawal Country last month for the opening weekend of Bundanon’s newest exhibition, Thinking Together: Exchanges with the natural world.

Bundanon is such a special part of the world and it’s a vital part of the Australian arts ecology with its residency program and artist commissions.

My write up of the weekend, and my conversations with artists Keg de Souza, Robert Andrew and Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan has just been published on ABC Arts 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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ABC Arts: Yayoi Kusama at NGV International

I had the opportunity to visit and write about the Yayoi Kusama blockbuster exhibition at NGV International last week for ABC Arts. There was a lot to reflect on, literally and otherwise.

You can read my article here and scroll through my obligatory mirror selfies below...

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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.