The Other Side

I have mixed feelings about this book. It introduced me to several incredible artists but I found it to be superficial. It is challenging content to write about. Would have been nice to see the images referenced with page numbers + more images in general. The art history is strong but the personal an......more

Honestly, I find whatever Jennifer Higgie writes to be fascinating. This was no exception. Her study of female artists using spirituality in their work is engaging, entertaining and enlightening. Once again I found myself googling like a bugger to look up artists and pieces of work that I'd never co......more

"'However fragmentary its condition, any work of art is actually a portion of arrested happening, or an emanation of past time. It is a graph of an activity now stilled, but a graph made visible like an astronomical body, by a light that originated with the activity'" (Kubler quoted by Higgie, 245).......more

Maybe I went into reading this book with the wrong expectations or maybe I’m not enough of an art history nerd but I would have found this book a lot more enjoyable had there been more of a red thread throughout / had the writer placed slightly more emphasis on the memoir part as opposed to the art......more

I cannot recommend this highly enough. A book I will return to again and again. The chapter on weaving was a particular highlight and just the start of a whole world to explore. I look back on years at art school and wish I had had these stories to affirm my practice.......more