Books
• The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
Published in the US, 2 January 2024
Pegasus Books, 2024
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Published in the UK 2 February 2023, Australia May 2023
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023
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• The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021
Pegasus Books, 2021
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• Thin Skin Essay and catalogue published by Monash University of Art Melbourne, on the occasion of the show of the same name, curated by Jennifer Higgie
• There’s Not One (Children’s book)
Written and illustrated by Jennifer Higgie
Scribe UK, 2016
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• One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People Hayward Publishing 2015
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• Bedlam (novel based on the life of Victorian fairy painter, Richard Dadd)
Sternberg Press, 2007
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• The Artist’s Joke (ed.) Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art /MIT Press, 2007
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Publications
2024
• ‘Little Cathedrals: The Creative Possibilities of Lemons’, for The Gourmand’s Lemon: A Collection of Stories and Recipes, pub. Taschen
2023
• ‘Sound, Gardener, Director, Light’: File note for Tamara Henderson, ‘Green in the Grooves’, Camden Art Centre, London, 6 October – 31 December
• ‘The Long Echo: The paintings of Nadine Christensen’, for a forthcoming monograph on the artist’s work, published by Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
• A profile of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo founder of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, for a forthcoming book
• ’Worlds Within Worlds: The Paintings of Bruno Pacheco’, pub by Hollybush Gardens, London. (Forthcoming)
• Sofia Mitsola, ‘Villa Venus: an Organized Dream’ at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 11 November – 22 December
• Essay for leaflet for Jennifer Binnie’s exhibition ‘Lady of the Forest’ at WIA Gallery in Lewes, East Sussex, 13 October – 26 November 2023
• ‘Life Forms: Hans Josephsohn’ for Skarstedt Gallery, New York, 6 Setpember – 28 October, August 2023
• ‘Altered States’, essay for the Venice Biennale Danza, artistic director Wayne McGregor, June 2023
• ‘What is Australian Art?’, The National, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• ‘Containers for My Feelings: Judy Chicago and Abstraction’, essay written for the catalogue of ‘Judy Chicago, Herstory’, the New Museum, New York, 12 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
• ‘Eternal Alterations’, essay for the forthcoming catalogue of Altered States, the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Venice Biennale Danza 2023, curated by Wayne McGregor
• ‘Spellbound: The intermingling of magic and art’, essay for the catalogue for the NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Essay for Look Again: the Paintings of Gideon Rubin, Anomie Publishing
• ‘Disobedient Objects: Recent work by Lubna Chowdhary’ for a forthcoming monograph published by MIMA
• ‘Anika Roach’s Paintings’, for Corvi-Mora Gallery, London
• ‘Tiny Grenades: A Meditation on the Drawings of Anne-Laure Zevi’ for a forthcoming publication edited by Michael Bracewell
• ‘Alice in Wonderland: Alice Frey’s Self-Portraits’, Alice Frey, exhibition catalogue, pub. Vendelmans
• ‘Casting a Spell: Adelaide Cioni’s Patterns’, Adelaide Cioni: On Patterns, Mousse Publishing, April 2023
2022
• ‘Only Connect’, essay for monograph on the work of Ruby Sky Stiler, published by the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, forthcoming
• Monica Sjöö, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, May 2023
• Jane Dickson, Alison Jacques Gallery London, March 2023
• Marcus Jansen’s second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in London
• ‘A Place Beyond Heaven’, New Work by Anna Higgins at ReadingRoom, Melbourne, December 2022
• ‘Love of Place: The paintings of Caroline Coon’, for Stephen Friedman Gallery, on the occasion of Coon’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, October 2022
• ‘Some Other Kind of Place’, Terry Winters’ new paintings for Stuart Shave, Modern Art on the occasion of Winters first exhibition with the gallery, October 2022
• Ljiljana Blazevska, profile for Alison Jacques at Frieze Masters, London, October 2022
• ‘Performing the Possibility of Healing, The work of Sarah Smuts-Kennedy’, essay for Energy Work: Kathy Barry / Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. Pub Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
• ‘The Trace of Things: The work of Katharina Fitz’, pub. Beam, September 2022
• ‘David Noonan’s Mnemosyne’, essay for the catalogue for his exhibition ‘Only When it’s Cloudless’, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia, May 2022
• Renee So, ‘Effigies and Elginisms’, catalogue for her exhibition at Cample Line, Scotland, April 2022
• Essay for Nicola Tyson for forthcoming monograph
• ‘Body Language’, essay for the catalogue of ‘The Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th Venice Biennale
• ‘Mining the Museum’, essay for Angelica Mesiti’s catalogue for her exhibition ‘In the Round’ at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
• ‘Looking at the Overlooked: the Paintings of Caroline Walker for the catalogue to the exhibition ‘Laura Knight and Caroline Walker: A Female Gaze’ at Nottingham Castle
• ‘As Above, So Below: Some Thoughts on Elisa Sighicelli’s new work for the catalogue to her exhibition of the same title at GAM Milan
• ‘I Am Here: Female Self-portraits Through the Centuries’: essay for the catalogue of Denmark’s ARKEN Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition ‘WOMEN’
2021
• ‘Smoke and Mirrors: A Meditation on the Paintings of Lisa Brice’, for Smoke and Mirrors, pub. KM21 in association with
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and SALON 94, New York
• ‘I Paint What I Feel: The radical inventions of Janet Sobel’ for the Gallery of Everything, London
• World Within Worlds’, essay for the catalogue of the Freelands Foundation 2021 Painting Prize
• ‘Since Feeling is First: The paintings of Roy Oxlade’ for a forthcoming monograph published by Beam Editions and Alison Jacques Gallery, London
• ‘Something Important to Say: The photographs of Marilyn Stafford’ for Marilyn Stafford, a Life in Photography
• Reprint and update of my essay on still life for STILL HERE – Moments in Isolation published by Distanz and edited by Mafalda Millies, Roya Sachs, TRIADIC; Matthias Kliefoth, DISTANZ
• ‘Eggs Are Everywhere’ for The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes, pub. Taschen
• ‘Again and Again, The Paintings of Sabine Moritz’, a new monograph published by Heni Artists’ Agency
• ‘Where the Sharp Things Are: The Worlds of Sara Anstis’ for Fabian Lang Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland
• ‘Seeing the Seeing: The Paintings of Jenna Gribbon’ for Jenna Gribbon, pub., GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• ‘A Tree Will Never Betray You: The world of Elene Chantladze’ essay for Stuart Shave / Modern Art
• ‘Here, After: The paintings of George Shaw’ for Gallery Lin & Lin in Taipei
• ‘Skin Deep: Marilyn Minter’s Bathers’ for monograph published for Marilyn Minter: All Wet, Mo.Co, Montpellier
• ‘Becoming One Again: Hilma af Klint’ catalogue essay for the exhibition Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, AGNSW, Sydney
• ‘From Life: Thoughts on the paintings of Jadé Fadojutimi’, for Jadé Fadojutimi's monograph Jesture
2020
• 'The Real Story — Women Artists and the Art Market' for the Chart Art Fair 2020 De-centred catalogue
• ‘Plain Facts: The Importance of Acknowledging Women Artists’ for the Freelands foundation annual report
• ‘Border Crossings: Sheila Hicks’s Minimes’, catalogue for Sheila Hicks at Hepworth Wakefield
• ‘Clarice Beckett’, for the book produced on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Know My Name’, National Gallery Australia
2019
• Interview with Simon Moretti and Daniel Silver, published in Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought, ed. Simon Moretti, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• ‘Rain on Moss: Thoughts on the Work of Rosslynd Piggott’, in the catalogue for her retrospective ‘I sense you but I cannot see you’, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne
• ‘Different Kinds of Togetherness: The films of Angelica Mesiti’, for Angelica Mesiti Assembly, representing Australia at the 58th Venice Biennale
2018
• ‘Variations on a Theme George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’, for The Shape of Time, Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna
• A Kind of Equivalence: The Paintings of Bridget Riley’, in the catalogue produced for Bridget Riley: Painting Now, at Sprüth Magers Gallery, Los Angeles
• Essay in Tim Braden, Looking and Painting, pub. Art/Books
• Essay for The Museum of Everything #7, pub. Museum of Everything
2017
• ‘The Long Queue’, Essay for Goodbye Europe: Writers and Artists Say Farewell, pub. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2016
• ‘On Envy’, for the online publication Divine Deadlines, edited by Negar Azimi and Patti Hertling
• ‘Longing for Light: The Art of Hilma af Klint’, in Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, pub. Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books
• Essay for Making and Unmaking, catalogue published for Duro Olowu’s exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, pub. Ridinghouse
• Essay ‘Border Lands’ for Clare Woods monograph Strange Meetings, Art/Book
• Essay for Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art, Phaidon
• 'Even With Gauntlets: Some thoughts on Mamma Andersson’s woodblock prints' in Mamma Andersson Woodcuts 2015–2016, published by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2015
• One Day, Something Happens, publication for the travelling exhibition Jennifer curated for Arts Council England Collection
2014
• Essay for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, (with Naomi Beckwith and Donatien Grau), pub. Prestel, Munich
• Essay for Michaël Borremans, As Sweet as it Gets, pub. Hatje Cantz
2013
• Essay for Hurvin Anderson: reporting back, published for his exhibition at IKON Gallery, Birmingham, pub. Ikon Gallery
• Essay for Rose Wylie, published on the occasion of ‘Woof-Woof’, Haugar Museum, Tonsberge, Norway, pub. Skira
2012
• Essay for Valeria Napoloeone’s Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes, Koenig Books
• 'Time Travels', essay for Marte Aas's Cinéma, Multipress
• ‘The Indifferent Owl: The Paintings of Gary Hume’, Gary Hume The Indifferent Owl, White Cube, London
2011
• Essay for David Noonan, pub. JRP Ringier
• Essay for Andreas Eriksson, Nordic Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Contributions by Daniel Birnbaum, Jennifer Higgie, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Magnus af Petersens
2010
• Essay for China Between: Polly Braden, Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Essay for Aya Takano, co-published by Galerie Perrotin and Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, 2010
• 'Carnival Theory', included in Silberkuppe: Under One Umbrella (co-edited with Michel Ziegler) Kunsthalle Bergen / Sternberg Press
• Essay for David Noonan: Scenes, JRP Ringier
2009
• Essay for The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives
2008
• Essay for Maria Lassnig catalogue for her exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, ‘Too Few Words’, König Books
• ‘A Number of Facts About Annika Ström’, essay for Annika Ström Live! onestar press
2007
• Essay for Fiona Rae: Hong Kong Garden, pub. Timothy Taylor Gallery
2006
• ‘Dai Rees’, for the Judith Clark publication on Dai Rees, Carapace
2005
• Essay for Ricky Swallow: This Time Another Year, Australia Venice Biennale 2005, Australia Council
• ‘Guess I’m Dumb’, Brian Wilson, An Art Book, ed. Alex Farquharson, Four Corners Books, London
2003
• Essay for Koen van den Broek, published White Cube Gallery
• ‘Songs in Silent Rooms’, essay for Mary Heilmann, Secession, Vienna
• ‘Pictures by Peter Doig’, Peter Doig, The Arts Club of Chicago
2002
• Essay for Instinction: Michael Raedecker
2001
• Untitled essay for Glenn Sorensen, Artimo Foundation, Amsterdam
1999
• Essay for Adam Chodzko, pub. August Media Ltd