Culture

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, his first in the southern hemisphere, explores the mutability of light, space and sound.

Rising’s first week is proof that the Melbourne festival is now fully grounded in the diversity of the city’s culture, with complementary international acts.

The documentary Ellis Park follows musician Warren Ellis from regional Victoria, where he faces his childhood trauma, to a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra.

What is left behind in his room? his books? no, someone else’s books, nothing of importance, that only he could find use for, no clothes to speak of other than the coat, the boots on his feet, where have they come from? if there are more, where are they now? being preserved for prosperity?

Highlights of the 72nd Sydney Film Festival include Alex Ross Perry’s fascinating tribute to video stores as well as a plethora of films about small-town ritual.

Pramkicker, produced by independent feminist company MO Theatre for Queensland Theatre, explores women’s anger – channelling it through humour.

The Potter Museum of Art’s new exhibition, years in the making, gives a rare and full account of this country’s art history by engaging with some of its earliest works.