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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.