Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)

Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake into Polish with her friend and ex-student Dizzy. 

We talk about how women found agency within the rise of spiritualism, telephoning the dead, art history as a work in progress, tigers of wrath, the golden age of female detective fiction, hanging out in Greece, bridge builders, astrology, precognitive dreams, human cruelty, climate crisis, bad writers, ghosts, eccentricities that make complete sense, taking your brain with all of its complications wherever you go, and Jennifer's passion for histories of exclusion, particularly those of women.

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BOOKS + AUTHORS + PUBLISHERS

Agatha Christie

Annie Besant 'Thought Forms' 1906

Brian Dillon 'Affinities' 2023

Dorothy L Sayers

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Georgio Vasari 'The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' 1550

Griselda Pollock

Hetty Judah

Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023 

Jennifer Higgie 'The Mirror and the Palette' 2021

Jennifer Higgie 'Bedlam' 2006

J M Coetzee 'The Childhood of Jesus' 2013

Katie Hessel

Linda Nochlin

Madame Blavatsky

Margary Allingham

Michael Bracewell 'Unfinished Business' 2023

Orion Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf

William Blake

ARTISTS 

Dean Kenning

Donna Huddleston 'Brighter' 2021

Frances Richardson

Georgiana Houghton

Helen Johnson

Hildagard of Bingen

Hilma af Klint

Homer 'Odyssey' 1614

Kazimir Malovich

Katie Pratt

Margo Neale

Mary Wigman

Paul Klee

Richard Dadd 'The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke' 1855-64

Sarah Lucas

Tracy Emin

Wassily Kandinsky 'Composition V' 1911

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + CURATORS

Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 'Dada'

Camden Arts Centre 'Making and Unmaking' 2016

Duo Olowu

Hugh Lane, Dublin

Margo Neale, First Nations Curator, Museum of Australia, Canberra

Modernity, Stockholm

MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne

Simon Lee, London

Tate Britain

Tate Modern 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992'

The Box, Plymouth 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters' 

OTHER

BBC3 'The Essay' Jennifer Higgie 'Artists and the Spirit World'

Emanuel Swedenborg

Frieze magazine

Jennifer Higgie scriptwriter 'I Really Hate My Job' 2007

Lucracia Dalt

Marie Curie

Mark Tanner Award

Thomas Edison