Lena Dunham announced as Edinburgh Art Festival guest in 'Shameful Women' talk

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Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series Girls, has been announced as a guest of a performance during the Edinburgh Art Festival.A talk entitled Shameful Women on August 19 will feature the Golden Globe winner and sculpture artist Lindsey Mendick.

The pair are coming together for this year's one-night Jupiter Rising festival on August 19 in a talk about 'proud, shameful women'.The event will see the artists speak 'openly and honestly' about their experiences in a one-off event at Jupiter Artland, a contemporary sculpture park and art gallery on the outskirts of Edinburgh.The talk is part of the Jupiter Rising festival, which takes place at Jupiter Artland over a single night and will also feature live music, dancing, karaoke and DJ sets.Dunham is a writer, director, actor and producer who was born and raised in New York City.

She wrote and appeared in Girls, which ran for six series and was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys awards.She has won two Golden Globes, a Writer's Guild Award, and was the first woman to win the DGA award for best director for a television comedy.

Her prose has been published in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vogue, Harper's Magazine and The New York Times. Mendick works predominantly with clay, and houses her artwork in life-like installations, recreating scenes from her personal life.