The Other Side

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores
the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the
twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen and the nineteenth-century
spiritualist Georgiana Houghton to the pioneering Hilma af Klint, these women
all - in their own unique ways - shared the same goal: to communicate with,
and learn from, other dimensions.

Weaving in and out of their myriad lives, Jennifer Higgie considers the solace
of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of
myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact
of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art.