Interviews & Talks
2024
• Evening Talk with Jennifer Higgie: Spiritualism, Feminism & Contemporary Art, Schumacher College, Dartington Trust, Totnes, 27 January 2024
• Jennifer Higgie interviews Lavinia Greenlaw about her new book The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further, London Review of Books Bookshop, 17 January 2024
2023
• Salomé Gómez-Upegui interviews Jennifer Higgie about The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, Gagosian Quarterly, 14 December 2023
• ‘A Different Kind of Happiness: Art and Solace in a Troubled World’, The Horse Hospital, London, 7 December 2023
• ‘Joanna Moorehead & Jennifer Higgie: Art on the Edge’, Folkestone Book Festival, 19 November 2023
• ‘Thao Nguyen Phan: Reincarnations’, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 9 November 2023
• ‘Rituals & Performance Art’, discussion as part of the Festival of the Accused, with Marisa Carnesky, Amy Kingsmill and Parma Ham, British Library, London, 4 November 2023
• ‘Reanimating History’: Ewa Juszkiewicz and Jennifer Higgie in conversation, Gagosian Quarterly, 1 November 2023
• Solo presentation at Christ’s Hospital School on The Other Side and the spiritual in art, 20 October 2023
• ‘Jennifer Higgie on The Other Side’, Highlanes Gallery, Ireland, 25 October 2023
• ‘Women at Work: 1900 to Now: Jennifer Higgie, Flavia Frigeri and Alice Rawsthorn’, National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 October 2023
• Presentation on spirals for ‘Ignota Gathering of the Spiral’, St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London, 13 October 2023
• ‘Radical Spirits’, discussion with Catriona McAra, Cheltenham Literature Festival, 10 October 2023
• Discussion with Alicia Foster about Gwen John, Pallant House, Chichester, 7 October 2023
• Reading at Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, on the occasion of Dominic Eichler’s curated exhibition ‘Biographicality’, 27 August 2023
• Maria Bussman interviews Jennifer Higgie about The Other Side, Salzburg Summer Academy, 24 August 2023
• Online Talk about Berthe Morisot: Chantal Joffe, María Berrío & Jennifer Higgie, The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 16 August 2023
• A presentation on ‘Spiritualism in art history, feminism and contemporary art’ for the members of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 July 2023
• ‘Jennifer Higgie on Crossing Thin Skin Thresholds’, interviewed by Anna Dickie, Ocula, 27 July 2023
• Kate Daw Memorial Lecture, VCA, Melbourne, Australia, 26 July 2023
• ‘The Other Side’, lunchtime talk, The National Museum of Australia, 21 June 2023
• ‘The Other Side’, discussion with Rebecca at The Yard, Hampshire, 10 June 2023
• Jennifer Higgie interviews Nick Mitzevich, director of the National Gallery of Australia, for a member’s event, NGA Canberra 23 May 2023
• ‘Revisiting Abstract Expressionism, a conversation between Iwona Blazwick, Dirk Boll, Pam Evelyn and Jennifer Higgie’, The Arts Club, London, 4 May
• Jennifer Higgie on ‘The Active Imagination: The Art of Olga Fröbe-Kapetyn’, History of Religions and Ideas seminar, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Engelsberg, Sweden, 27 April 2023
▶️ Jennifer Higgie discusses Hilma af Klint, BBC Radio 3, Free Thinking, 20 April 2023
• Jennifer Higgie interviews Andy Holden about his new exhibition ‘The End of Days’ at The Gallery of Everything, London, 13 April 2023
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviews Jann Haworth on the evolution of her work, for Gazelli House, London, 30 March 2023
• Jennifer Higgie in conversation with Will Gompertz about his new book See What You’re Missing, Daunts Literary Festival, 29 March 2023
• Jennifer Higgie on The Other Side, West Dean College, Sussex, 15 March 2023
• Global Head of Art, Soho House, Kate Bryan interviews Jennifer Higgie at Shoreditch House, London about The Other Side, 28 February 2023
• Jennifer Higgie on The Other Side at London College of Psychic Studies, 27 February 2023
• Jennifer Higgie solo presentation on The Other Side at David Chipperfield Architects Symposium, London, , 23 February 2023
▶️ Donna Huddleston and Jennifer Higgie in conversation about Donna’s cover drawing for The Other Side, Simon Lee Gallery, London, 23 February 2023
▶️ Jillian Knipe interviews Jennifer Higgie about The Other Side and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk for her podcast Art Fictions, 22 February 2023
• Jennifer Higgie interviews Brian Dillon about his new book Affinities at The London Review of Books Bookshop, 20 February 2023
▶️ Daniel Browning interview with Jennifer Higgie about The Other Side for Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 14 February 2023
• Louisa Buck interviews Jennifer Higgie about her new book on spiritualism for The Art Newspaper, 7 February 2023
• Book launch for The Other Side: Louisa Buck interviews Jennifer Higgie at Foyles Bookshop, London, 2 February
• Comedian and writer Holly Walsh and Jennifer recorded ‘Meet Me at the Museum’ podcast at the Ditchling Museum in East Sussex. (Release date TBC). January 2023
2022
• ‘Self-Portraits of my Feelings: an interview with Tracey Emin’, The Annual, the National Gallery of Australia, November 2022
• ‘Only Connect: an interview with Nick Mitzevich’, The Annual, the National Gallery of Australia, November 2022
• Jennifer Higgie contributes to a panel on ‘Women in Art’ organized by The Female Lead and chaired by Will Gompertz with Alex Light, Eleanor Nairne at the Barbican, London, 22 November 2022
• Jennifer Higgie chairs a discussion ‘Novel Ideas: Representing Art and Women in Fiction’ at London’s National Gallery. Three writers talked about their new novels: Chloë Ashby, Sophie Haydock Charlotte Mendelson, 21 November 2022
• Juliet Jacques and Jennifer Higgie discuss the writing process and their recent books at Mimosa House organized by Her Story Art Talks, 13 November 2022
• Jennifer Higgie was part of a discussion about ‘The Muse in Art’ chaired by Jo Baring and Luisa-Maria MacCormack at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 14 October 2022
• Jennifer Higgie interviews Katy Hessel about her new book The Story of Art Without Men at the London Library, 29 September 2022
• ‘Women in art’, solo presentation, Monteverdi, Italy, 20 July, 2022
• ‘The Evolution of Art magazines and Art Fairs’, Royal Academy of Arts Summer School, London, 14 July 2022
• ‘A Retrospective: A Rediscovery of Perle Fine’, with Daniel Zamani and George Lionel Baker, Gazelli House, London, 1 July 2022
• ‘Meetings on Art: Curating from Feminist Perspectives’, Venice Biennale. I chaired a discussion with Andrea Giunta; Adrien Sina, curator and art historian; and Clarissa Ricci, 11 June 2022
▶️ Miranda July and Jay Benedicto in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, MACK LIVE, 14 April 2022
• ‘Jennifer Higgie: After Hilma’, in conversation with Lana Lopesi for Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, March 2022
• ‘Seeing Herself: Women Artists and Self-Portraiture’, part of National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, series ‘Observations: Women in Art and Design History’, 5 March 2022
▶️‘The Performing Pencil: Jennifer Higgie and Donna Huddleston in Conversation’ for the Royal Drawing School
▶️ Instagram live with Rochelle Feinstein
2021
▶️ Guest on the BBC Radio 4 panel show, ‘The Museum of Curiosity’ with John Lloyd and Holly Walsh
▶️ Cheltenham Festival, interviewed by Katy Hessel about ‘The Mirror and the Palette’, 19 October
▶️ Cheltenham Festival, panel discussion, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’, with Kate Bryan, Ferren Gipson and Katy Hessel, 18 October
▶️ Panel discussion on ‘The Fictional Female’, The Gallery of Everything, London, with Chloe Aridjis, Katy Hessel and Sarah Wilson, 14 October
▶️ Interview with Camille Morineau, director of AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, for Spirit Now, 11 October
▶️ ‘Power and the Palette: How Women Artists Inspired a Revolution’, discussion at the London Library with Rebecca Birrell, chaired by Katy Hessel, 7 October
▶️ Instagram live with Angelica Mestiti on the occasion of the opening of her solo show ‘In the Round’ at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 October
▶️ Chaired an online discussion as part of K20/K21’s symposium on ‘Rethinking the Museum’, 20 September
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Alicia Foster at the Charleston Festival about ‘The Power of the Portrait’
▶️ Guest on BBC’s ‘Arts and Ideas’ to discuss women artists and the art-historical canon, 8 June
• Interview with Jane Burton about The Mirror and the Palette for the Blackheath Conservatoire, London, 26 May
• Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Rachel Andrews about The Mirror and the Palette for RTE Lyric FM in Ireland, May
• Jennifer chaired talk with writer Oliver Basciano and artist Sara Barker on Carol Rhodes’ painting for Alison Jacques Gallery 18 May
• Jennifer was one of a large group of artists, writers and curators who honoured the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Linda Nochlin’s ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ for the Museum of Modern Art, New York
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Philip Adams for his ‘Late Night Live’ show on Radio National, Australia, to discuss What do women artists and their self-portraits tell us?’, 29 April
• Jennifer chaired a discussion for Stephen Friedman Gallery with contributors to the new monograph on Lisa Brice’s work, Yasmijn Jarram, Laura Smith and Attilah Springer, 14 April
• ‘Phyllida Barlow: The Edges of Things’ Jennifer Higgie talks to the artist about Giacometti, lockdown and the theatre of sculpture. Ursula magazine, Hauser & Wirth
▶️ Interview about The Mirror and the Palette by Hannah McInnes for Talk Radio, 26 March (around the 2.04 mark)
▶️ RCA Arts & Humanities Talk: ‘Work in Progress’ chaired by writer and editor-at-large of Frieze Jennifer Higgie, with the artists Guanyu Xu, Jamie Crewe, Jasleen Kaur and Oscar Murillo
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Daniela Steinfeld on Voices on Art: The Van Horn Gallery Podcast
2020
▶️ Interview with director Zeina Durra about her hypnotic new film Luxor. You can read my review of the film for frieze here
• Discussion hosted by Birds’ Eye View director-at-large and Oscar winning producer, Mia Bays, with Halina Dryschka, the director of the new documentary about Hilma af Klint, Beyond The Visible, Barbican Art Gallery curator Eleanor Nairne and Jennifer Higgie.
▶️ Interview with Nan Goldin for the National Gallery of Australia's 'Know My Name: A Celebration of Women Artists': a conference, exhibition, publication and more
▶️ Interview with Namila Benson about Bow Down for the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Art Show for Radio National
• City Gallery Wellington / Te Whare Toi blog: 'Born Every Day' Megan Dunn talks to Jennifer Higgie, host of the Bow Down podcast, which celebrates significant women from art history
• Interview with Stephen Friedman for 25th anniversary publication
▶️ Donna Huddleston in conversation with Jennifer Higgie: The Drawing Room, London
2019
▶️ A talk about the work of the US artist and writer Amy Sillman at London's Camden Art Centre
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Fiona Gruber for ABC radio
▶️ The Enigma of the Hour: I chaired a conversation between artist and curator Simon Moretti and artist Daniel Silver at the Freud Museum, London
• In Conversation: Jennifer Higgie, Mareike Dittmer and Chloe Julius discuss the exhibition Material Actions, Hauser & Wirth St Moritz
▶️ Mandy El-Sayegh in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, Chisenhale Gallery
• Clare Woods in Conversation with Jennifer Higgie, Simon Lee Gallery, London
• 'Fan Letters: The Uses of Enthusiasm', Interview with psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the artist Amalia Pica for Frieze Academy, London
▶️ Jennifer Higgie interviews Werner Herzog, Tom Sachs and Van Neistat, Paramount Theater, frieze Los Angeles
• ‘Time Traveller: Renee So’, interview with Renee So for the catalogue produced on the occasion of her exhibition, ‘Bellarmines and Bootlegs’, at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
• ‘On Food, Farming, Heritage and Healing’, Interview with Vivien Sansour, frieze 205, September 2019
• ‘Work-in-Progress: Interview with Frederick Paxton’, frieze online, July 2019
• ‘From the Traditional Museum to the World of VR’: interview with Daniel Birnbaum, March
• ‘Oliver Beer’s Life in Sound’, frieze 201, March 2019
▶️ Chaired panel discussion at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac on the occasion of the exhibition 'Artists I Steal From': Alvaro Barrington, Julia Peyton-Jones, Issy Wood
• Keynote speaker at Object Subject: Design Canberra Festival: 'Thinking in Three Dimensions: Why, in the age of gender diversity and equal opportunity, is it still necessary to stage an all-female design exhibition?'
• Keynote speaker at RMIT ACUADS Conference on Engagement (Melbourne): 'Let’s Party Like it’s 1919 Some Thoughts on Art and Engagement or Don’t Tell Art What to Do as It’s Doing it Anyway'
2018
• My thoughts on Amy Sillman’s work, Camden Art Centre, London, November
• 'Gods and Monsters: Contemporary Art in Historical Museums', Frieze Masters Art Fair, Jennifer Higgie (chair), Ann Demeester (Frans Hals Museum), Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum) and Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
• In conversation with Tate Modern director Frances Morris about art and feminism
• In conversation with Professor Griselda Pollock: Feminism in Art, 1918-2018
• ‘Female Human Animal’: interview with Josh Appignanesi, Chloe Aridjis, Juliet Jacques, frieze online, September 2018
• ‘Sonia Boyce: 30 Years of Art and Activism’, frieze 196, June-August 2018
• ‘Women In the Arts’, interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, frieze online, March 2018
• ‘Women in the Arts’, interview with Julia Peyton-Jones, frieze online, March 2018
• Jennifer Higgie in conversation with Lubaina Himid at the Charleston Festival
• RCA Arts & Humanities Talk: What's Next? Series on Criticism & Approaches to the Understanding of Culture(s): Jennifer Higgie, Editorial Director, frieze, Sarah Shin, Publisher, Silver Press and Communications Director, Verso
• A Meditation on the Art of Amy Sillman, in response to her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London
• Conversation with Tania Bruguera on the occasion of her Tate Turbine Hall commission: How can art really influence politics? Frieze Academy, London
▶️ Discussion ABSURD COSMOS with Panellists Dr Chantal Faust, Hardeep Pandhal And Bedwyr Williams, chaired by Jennifer Higgie, in response to Mika Rottenburg's solo exhibition, Goldsmiths CCA, London
• Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Double Negative: Meet the Mentors
• Interview with Giuseppina Panza, Hauser & Wirth, London, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Panza Collection Archives'
2017
▶️ Jeremy Leslie talks to Jennifer Higgie about the Frieze story Rei Kawakubo: The Clothes Maker, by Judith Clark. Presented by WeTransfer Studios.
• Jennifer Higgie interviewed by Fiona Gruber for University of Melbourne: ART150
• Henry Moore Annual Guest Lecture: Jennifer Higgie in conversation with Hilary Lloyd, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
▶️ Houses are Really Bodies': In conversation with novelist Chloe Aridjis and writer Marina Warner about Leonora Carrington, Cubitt Gallery, London
• In conversation with Phyllida Barlow, Frieze Academy, London
• The Modern House: Collected: Art with 'Frieze' Editorial Director Jennifer Higgie
• Artist's Talk: Helen Johnson and Jennifer Higgie at the ICA, London
• Art and Protest: How important is art as a form of protest? Jennifer chaired a panel discussion with Osei Bonsu and Heather Phillipson, Frieze Academy, London
• 'How to Write About Art': day-long course, written and conducted for Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (via Skype)
• Conversation with Shahryar Neshat about his exhibition 'Mean Dream & Shoulder Regime' at Rodeo Gallery, London
2016
• ‘Toby Follett: A Very Sicilian Justice’, frieze online, September 2016
• Jennifer Higgie interviewed about ‘One Day, Something Happened’ Double Negative
▶️ Jennifer Higgie, Caroline Achaintre and Donna Huddleston Talk on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Duro Olowu at Camden Arts Centre, London: 'Thoughts on Making and Unmaking', 2016
• Jennifer Higgie in conversation with Milena Dragicevic and Donna Huddleston about their work in 'One Day, Something Happened, an Arts Council Touring show, curated by Jennifer, at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
• An Evening with Olivia Laing: I interviewed Olivia about her new book, The Lonely City, Frieze Academy, London
• 'How to Write About Art': day-long course, written and conducted for Frieze Academy, London
• Review of my course, 'How to Write About Art' by Rachel Marsden
2015
• Interview with Ellen Altfest at Milton Keynes Gallery
• ‘Sheila Hicks: Fibre is my Alphabet’, frieze 169, March 2015
• ‘David Campany: High and Low’, frieze Masters, issue 4, September 2015
• ‘To Show or Not to Show’, Interview with Marlene Dumas, Andrea Büttner, Jennifer Higgie, Tate Etc, April 2015
▶️ Gods and Monsters: Contemporary Art in Historical Museums, Chaired discussion Frieze Masters Art Fair with: Colin Wiggins (Special Projects Curator, National Gallery, London); Jasper Sharp (Adjunct Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna); Dimitro Ozerkov (Director of Contemporary Art Department, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
• Creative Criticism: discussion with Brian Dillon and Michael Bracewell, Frieze Masters Art Fair
▶️ On Collections: from Maiolica to Netsuke, with Pablo Bronstein and Norman Rosenthal
▶️ Southbank Centre: Think Aloud, In conversation with artist Neha Choksi about her exhibition in the Hayward Project Space
• Jennifer Higgie and Stephen Shore, moderated by Steven Macleod: On Instagram, Photolondon
• Graduation Address for graduating Master of Fine Arts and Contemporary Arts students, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
▶️ In conversation with Caragh Thuring on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery
2014
• ‘Eight Painters on Painting: Rose Wylie, Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Ellen Altfest, Henry Taylor, Apostolos Georgiou, Helen Johnson, Imran Quereshi, Mark Sadler’, frieze 160, Jan-Feb 2014
• In conversation with Edward Thomasson on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London
2013
▶️ ‘Philippe Parreno: My Influences’, frieze 158, October 2013
▶️ Interview with John Waters, frieze art fair >
2012:
• Interview for Melbourne University blog on graduates: 'Creatively Determined: Jennifer Higgie'
2011
• ‘Talking Pictures: Yto Barrada’, frieze 142, October 2011
▶️ Conversation with Daniel Sinsel on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London
• ‘Questions and Answers’, interview with Suzanne Lacy, frieze 149, September 2012
▶️ Introduction to Agnes Varda on the occasion of her keynote lecture at frieze talks, frieze art fair
2008
• ‘Spiteful of Dream’, interview with Jane and Louise Wilson, frieze 118, October 2008
▶️ Introduction to Yoko Ono on the occasion of her keynote lecture at frieze art fair
2007
• Jennifer Higgie on Sue Tompkins: Apple, The Showroom, London
1998
• ‘Bad Meaning Good’, interview with Jonathan Green, frieze 41, June-August 1998