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A handpicked history of floral art, kabuki on screen and a poetry competition – what to see, do and create this week

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 787 words · By Anna Walker
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The author provides a series of recommendations for current art exhibitions, books, and cinema, including a feature on the film Kokuho. The piece also announces a new climate poetry award for UK-based researchers launched by The Conversation UK.

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Caroline Walker is one of my favourite working artists.

Why it matters

The observations in her work are so exquisitely rendered that they often feel almost uncanny.

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Such was the case when I encountered her 2025 painting Kitchen Table.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

The author provides a series of recommendations for current art exhibitions, books, and cinema, including a feature on the film Kokuho. The piece also announces a new climate poetry award for UK-based researchers launched by The Conversation UK.

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Claim 1: “This week The Conversation UK launched a new climate poetry award... inviting UK-based researchers to write a poem inspired by climate change research.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “her new book, How to Enter the Art World”
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Multiple sources, including a publisher (Hoxton Mini Press) and a review, confirm Hettie Judah wrote the book 'How to Enter the Art World'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Judah has also spoken and written about the art world's inaccessibility to parents, especially mothers. In October 2022 Hettie Judah co-founded The Art Working Parents Alliance alongside curator Jo Ha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hettie_Judah
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web search NEUTRAL — So writes author and curator Hettie Judah in her new book, How to Enter the Art World. At first glance, the book’s presentation might mislead the reader into believing it to be another giant crumb fro…
https://theconversation.com/how-to-enter-the-art-world-by-he…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hettie Judah writes with such clarity and passion.’ – Robert Diament, writer and broadcaster, Talk Art podcast. ‘Accessible, reassuring, useful and funny… I loved this book so much and needed it so ba…
https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/how-to-enter-the-ar…
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Claim 3: “Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today featuring works by Walker alongside Henri Rousseau, Chris Ofili and Lubaina Himid”
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Multiple sources confirm the exhibition 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' features works by Caroline Walker, Henri Rousseau, Chris Ofili, and Lubaina Himid.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. The town attracted many of the country’s leading…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkcudbright_Artists'_Colony
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts the young Danish noblewoman Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands is an 1842 oil painting by the British artist Richard Redgrave. It shows Ophelia from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. Depicted as madness has overcome her, she is sh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_Weaving_Her_Garlands
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Claim 4: “Kokuho, Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film”
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Multiple sources confirm 'Kokuho' is a 2025 film and has become the highest-grossing live-action film in Japan.
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘Kokuho’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Japanese Live-Action Film Locally With $111 Million. Yesterday. Save for later.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kokuho is a colourful, lengthy epic, spanning five decades and running almost three hours, set in the world of kabuki – Japan’s most popular traditional performing art. It has been a huge hit in Japan…
https://theconversation.com/kokuho-is-japans-highest-ever-gr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kokuho is a 2025 Japanese historical drama film directed by Lee Sang-il and written by Satoko Okudera, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Shuichi Yoshida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokuho_(film)
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Claim 5: “Caroline Walker's 2025 painting Kitchen Table is on show at Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' is at Kettle's Yard and specifically mention Caroline Walker's 2025 painting 'Kitchen Table' as part of the exhibition.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nash_(artist)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by American feminist artist Judy Chicago. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Kali, Jud…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinner_Party
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dod Procter (born Doris Margaret Shaw; 1890 – 1972) was an early twentieth-century English artist, best known for Impressionistic landscapes and delicate "nearly sculptural studies of solitary female…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dod_Procter
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Claim 6: “the Michaelina Wautier exhibition at the Royal Academy in London”
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While Wikipedia confirms Michaelina Wautier is a painter, the provided evidence does not mention a current or specific exhibition of her work at the Royal Academy in London. The search results for this claim were largely irrelevant (dictionary definitions).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (c. 1614–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the start of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculpture…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_Antw…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (1829–1896). It focuses on oil paintings, with just a few watercolours listed; it includes a few notable oil s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_John_Ever…
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Claim 7: “Painting in the 1600s, Wautier’s portraiture is marked by an “elegant palette” and “mastery of textures”.”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm Michaelina Wautier was a painter from the Southern Netherlands active in the 17th century (c. 1614–1689).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of paintings by Michaelina Wautier that are generally accepted as autograph by the Katlijne Van der Stighelen catalog and other sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Michaelin…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (c. 1614–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the start of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Triumph of Bacchus is a painting by the Walloon artist Michaelina Wautier. It was painted between 1650 and 1656 and is one of Wautier's greatest works, as well as her largest. Based on classical t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_Bacchus_(Wautier)
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Claim 8: “Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today is at Kettle’s Yard until September 6 2026.”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state the exhibition 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' is at Kettle's Yard until September 6, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. The town attracted many of the country’s leading…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkcudbright_Artists'_Colony
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts the young Danish noblewoman Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands is an 1842 oil painting by the British artist Richard Redgrave. It shows Ophelia from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. Depicted as madness has overcome her, she is sh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_Weaving_Her_Garlands
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Claim 9: “Professional kabuki remains a tight-knit, all-male sphere built on family lineage: actors pass hereditary stage names down to their sons”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific details regarding the all-male sphere and hereditary stage names of professional kabuki.
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Claim 10: “a free introductory climate poetry workshop, led by poet Professor Sam Illingworth of Edinburgh Napier University, on May 13.”
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Claim 11: “the film is set in the world of kabuki – Japan’s most popular traditional performing art.”
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Although the specific 'Evidence for claim 8' section was empty, the evidence provided for claim 7 explicitly states that 'Kokuho' is 'set in the world of kabuki – Japan’s most popular traditional performing art'.
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Claim 12: “Hettie Judah’s book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of loan advertisements and does not mention Hettie Judah or a book titled 'Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood'.
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