Australia’s National Gallery Launches Podcast with Jennifer Higgie
Hosted by writer, presenter, and former Frieze editor Jennifer Higgie, Artists' Artists invites contemporary artists to discuss inspiring or intriguing artworks from the museum's collection.
Jennifer Higgie. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023.
In the five-part podcast, artists Julie Rrap, Danie Mellor, Bridget Riley, Janet Laurence, and Albert Yonathan Setyawan share insights into lesser-known works from the national collection and their own life experiences and stories.
Higgie, who is also the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, and the editor of National Gallery publication The Annual, described the artist's insights as 'illuminating, insightful and gripping'.
In the first episode of the new podcast, Australian artist Julie Rrap discusses artists Sol Wiener, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffatt, and Yukultji Napangati. In another episode, British artist Bridget Riley speaks about her own creations and works by Jackson Pollock, Howard Taylor, and Georges Seurat.
Higgie's books include The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World (2023) and The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits (2021). In 2023, the multi-hyphenate curated Thin Skin (20 July–23 September 2023), an exhibition presented at Melbourne's Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
Artists' Artists can be streamed online or downloaded via podcast platforms. —[O]
