Over the past two months, NGV’s Unplugged Live: Portrait of an Artist series has showcased some incredible Australian artists, and this afternoon’s show featuring Missy Higgins was no exception. This unique series has given us a fascinating insight into how music and visual arts combine.
Today’s show started with NGV’s Susan van Wyk and The Panics’ Jae Laffer exploring the wilderness theme. They discussed 19th century landscape photography, focusing on the work of Australian photographer Charles Bayliss.
In front of a large crowd, Higgins spoke about her new covers album, Oz, and played a couple of tracks from it; Don Walker’s The Way You Are Tonight and Shark Fin Blues by The Drones.Her interpretation of these songs was beautiful. Higgins then performed Going North, which was inspired by her time living in Broome. She closed out her set with crowd favourite Everyone’s Waiting.
Unfortunately this was the last show in Unplugged Live: Portrait of an Artist. Let’s hope NGV produce a similar series in the future.
BY ALI BIRNIE
Loved: Everyone’s Waiting.
Hated: That this was the final show of the series.
Drank: Water.
