Edinburgh Art Festival: Girls star Lena Dunham to be particular visitor at Shameful Women occasion

Lena Dunham, the star of hit comedy-drama TV sequence Girls, has been introduced as a particular visitor at an Edinburgh Art Festival occasion.

The Golden Globe winner will be a part of sculpture artist Lindsey Mendick for a dialog entitled Shameful Women on 19 August.

Both ladies will talk about their private experiences through the one-off occasion at Jupiter Artland, a up to date sculpture park and artwork gallery on the outskirts of the town.

Dunham is a author, director, actor and producer who was born and raised in New York City. She wrote and appeared in Girls, which ran for six sequence and was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys awards.

She has received two Golden Globes, a Writer’s Guild Award, and was the primary girl to win the DGA award for greatest director for a tv comedy. Her prose has been revealed in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vogue, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times.

Mendick works predominantly with clay, and homes her art work in life-like installations, recreating scenes from her private life.

Her solo fee is at the moment introduced throughout Jupiter Artland’s galleries. It is her greatest fee up to now and presents a up to date view of duality and supposed binaries between good and evil, advantage and depravity, and gender roles.

The two ladies will come collectively at this yr’s Jupiter Rising competition, which takes place at Jupiter Artland over a single night time and also will characteristic reside music, dancing, karaoke and DJ units.

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‘Exploration about proud ladies’

Jupiter Artland founder and director Nicky Wilson mentioned: “These two women bring their power of observation and relentlessly confessional instincts to site their work in a most compelling medium themselves.

“This discuss is just not about ladies and disgrace, it is an exploration about shameful, proud ladies that transmute disgrace into observations that resonate with us all.

“Mendick does not shy away from confession and mess as she presents unflinching observations of the power of drink – it’s fun and it’s optimism alongside the messiness and regret that it also inflicts.”

Kim McAleese, director of the Edinburgh Art Festival, mentioned: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Jupiter Artland on this amazing one-night event, with such a fantastic range of collaborators and performers and curated by active, important and exciting artists and arts workers.”