Jennifer Higgie Jennifer Higgie i(A124073 works by)
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Writer and art critic. Jennifer Higgie co-edited and wrote for the London-based contemporary art magazine frieze. She edited the anthology The Artist's Joke (2006), complied Far too Noisy, My Dear Mozart : A Collection of Historical Insults (1997) and The Little Book of Venom (1999). Higgie also published critical works on art and artists and wrote her thesis 'Travelling (Hopefully) : A Meditation on Still Life' (1991) on Dutch still life painting.

Higgie grew up in Canberra, ACT, and studied at the Australian National University, Canberra School of Art and the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts. She left Australia to study painting in London. In Canberra, she was part of folk-pop group Get Set Go, with 'Stevie Plunder' (Anthony Hayes), later of the Whitlams and her sister, Suzie Higgie, later of The Falling Joys.

She is the sister of Suzie Higgie from The Falling Joys, whose 1991 song 'Jennifer' is about her.

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y separately published work icon There's Not One Melbourne : Scribble , 2016 9435377 2016 single work picture book children's

'In kaleidoscopic colour, Higgie takes young readers on a journey from some of life’s most important things (baked beans!) to some of life’s biggest wonders (stars!). The perfect early picture book for the curious kid!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2017 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book designed by Miriam.
y separately published work icon There's Not One Melbourne : Scribble , 2016 9435377 2016 single work picture book children's

'In kaleidoscopic colour, Higgie takes young readers on a journey from some of life’s most important things (baked beans!) to some of life’s biggest wonders (stars!). The perfect early picture book for the curious kid!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2017 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book designed by Miriam.
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