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Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer and former editor and staff writer of frieze magazine who lives in London. Her recent books include The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit world and The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits. She is also the author of the novel Bedlam; author and illustrator of the children’s book There’s Not One; and editor of The Artist’s Joke. Her five part essay for BBC Radio 3, Artists and the Spirit World, is available on BBC iplayer. She has been a judge of the Paul Hamlyn Award, the Turner Prize, the John Moore’s Painting Prize, and a member of the advisory boards of Arts Council England, the British Council Venice Biennale Commission, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum Art Commissions Committee. In 2023, Jennifer was guest curator of the exhibition of contemporary and historic painting, Thin Skin at Monash University Art Museum in Melbourne. Jennifer is also the host of the podcast Bow Down, which ran from 2019-2021, and the ongoing National Gallery of Australia’s new podcast, Artist’s Artists.