What moved us this year…
Music
A year in which women artists dominated, and Irish rockers made the mother tongue music and a wild, wild film.
- Chappell Roan
- The Last Dinner Party
- Tia Gostelow
- Fred Again
- KNEECAP
Movies
Among spicy blockbusters, Kirsten Stewart (this time with Rose Glass) continued to take film, and us, into places we have not experienced before.
- Love, Lies, Bleeding
- Furiosa (A Mad Max Saga)
- Megalopolis
- The Substance
- Dune 2
Books
Women won the major prizes with books we couldn’t put down.
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
- Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
- Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
- Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Art
Art to make your head spin, and your stomach full.
- Kenny Nguyen’s incredible silk eruptions
- Thandiwe Muriu’s optical illusory patterns
- Naminapu Maymuru-White’s cosmic journeys.
- More banana eating.
- And, Archie Moore’s Golden Lion winner, Kith and Kin. Stopped us in our tracks.
