Culture

Scottish memoirist and comedian Fern Brady draws on peculiarities of a Catholic upbringing and her autism to create a Melbourne International Comedy Festival highlight.

The interpretation of Lucretia by Artemisia Gentileschi that is currently on display at Hamilton Gallery is rarely seen – its detail and distillation of pyschological tension must be experienced in person.

Nam Le’s long-awaited follow-up to The Boat is restless in its craft – a book that understands both form and identity to be in constant motion.

For writer Miranda Darling, the work of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark galvanises her desire to arouse transformative images in her readers’ minds.

Rose Glass’s second feature film, Love Lies Bleeding, relies on the clichés of masculinity and violence that it’s supposedly interrogating.

Angela Brennan’s abstract paintings are vibrant explorations of form that hover between emergence and imminent collapse.

The acclaimed Black American director Ava DuVernay has made a career of firsts – but she had to create her own ways into the film industry to do it.

Netflix’s unsettling psychological thriller Dear Child explores the archetypes of family to reach unerringly into the subconscious.