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Please join Adult Contemporary Reading Group for our discussion of Jennifer Higgie’s ‘The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World’, a semi-autobiographical exploration of women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, published by W&N in 2024.The book is available to purchase in paperback form for $24.99 (inc. GST) from Adult Contemporary (via DM or email) and should be read in advance of the meeting.
ACRG will focus on texts concerning art and culture, including both fiction and non-fiction. The reading group is open to all and meets on the last Sunday of each month (with times and locations subject to possible variation). Suggestions for future texts, either in physical or digital publication formats, are welcome at any time.
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In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, ‘The Other Side’ explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen and the nineteenth-century spiritualist Georgiana Houghton to the pioneering Hilma af Klint, these women all—in their own unique ways—shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions.
Weaving in and out of their myriad lives, Jennifer Higgie considers the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art.
https://www.hachette.com.au/jennifer-higgie/the-other-side-a-journey-into-women-art-and-the-spirit-world
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Jennifer Higgie is a writer who studied painting at art school in Australia before moving to London. Previously the editor of ‘frieze’ magazine, she was also the presenter of ‘Bow Down’, a podcast about women in art history. She is a screenwriter, the editor of a collection of writings on art and humour, ‘The Artist’s Joke’, a novel, ‘Bedlam’, a children’s book, ‘There’s Not One’, and ‘The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits’.
https://www.jenniferhiggie.com/
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