What's On at UWA

Come along and make your own three-dimensional felted monster with textile artist Pauline Franklyn. Learn to felt using wool tops and a resist. Use your imagination to customise your character. All materials provided. Tickets $50. Suitable for ages 9-15.

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Make your own colourful mobile with artist Pauline Franklyn. Learn the traditional craft of felting and turn your piece of felt into a colourful mobile, adding pom poms, bells and tassels. All materials provided. Please bring along a tea towel. Tickets $50. Suitable for ages 9-15.

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Join local comics artist Campbell Whyte, author of the award-winning graphic novel Home Time, as he guides aspiring comic book authors through the art of comic storytelling. Tickets $40. Suitable for ages 7-12.

UWA SPRINGarts 2018 runs 2 - 6 October. Join us at LWAG for a fun-filled (...)

A free public symposium presented in conjunction with the exhibition HERE&NOW18: Besides, it is always the others who die on show at LWAG from 1 September until 8 December 2018. Join artists, academics and curators in examining the omnipresent legacy of Marcel Duchamp within contemporary art.

Join the UWA Origami Club for a fun, introductory origami workshop for children. Never tried origami before? No problem, just come along and give it a go. We will learn classics such as penguins, cranes, and more. All materials provided. Free event. Suitable for ages 7-12.

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Slow your day down by joining us for a different kind of art gallery tour. We begin this session with a close observation of selected artworks from the current exhibitions, followed by an informal discussion on themes of empathy and compassion.

Join us for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s quarterly program for people living with dementia and their carers or family members. This event provides a forum for conversation through the shared viewing and exploration of artworks on display – highlighting themes, artists, and exhibitions at (...)

In this presentation, Ezrina Fewings, Educational Development Adviser from the UWA Educational Enhancement Unit, will reveal pioneering case studies on the state of the arts influenced and integrated by AI.

This is an opportunity for newcomers as well as regular visitors to explore the gallery and to tour the latest exhibitions in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Enjoy a free sundowner, listen to live music and experiment with art activities. You may win a door prize too.

Join Jane Southwood, UWA Honorary Research Fellow, as she discusses a series of exquisite sixteenth century French paintings and sculptures by individual named and unnamed artists from the Ecole de Fontainebleau, portraying the mistresses – or ‘favourites’ – of reigning French monarchs. UWA (...)

Join us to hear Sue Baker, aka Mrs Potter Pots, discuss her backyard process for creating her unique super light-weight concrete pots and candles. Sue’s pots are all hand-painted, each one unique, and can be used in a variety of ways – for plants, kitchen utensils, candles and desk accessories (...)

In this Friday Talk, listen as Emeritus Professor Richard Read explores the idea that ‘bad’ works of art reveal the problem that ‘successful’ works of art conceal and that this effect of ‘failure’ has therefore been an essential quality of truly experimental art, especially over the (...)

Join exhibition curator Dr Vanessa Russ, Associate Director of the Berndt Museum, to learn about the forming of the exhibition Stockyards and Saddles: A Story of the Gibb River, and the stories depicted in the rich array of photographs, most of which were taken by her uncle Colin Russ on a box (...)

Led by educator Erin Knight, attend the Professional Development workshop for teachers using these education kits. Links can be made to: VET Courses: Certificates in Visual Arts, CUA50915 Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging, Year 11 ATAR Design Unit 1 and 2, Year 11 and 12 General and ATAR (...)

Join Tom Picton-Warlow, collector of important signed works and archival material by Marcel Duchamp, to hear about the origin of his interest and collection – some of which is featured in HERE&NOW18 now showing at LWAG.

Join us for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s quarterly program for people living with dementia and their carers or family members. This event provides a forum for conversation through the shared viewing and exploration of artworks on display – highlighting themes, artists, and exhibitions at (...)

Join us for a touch and verbal descriptive tour of the current exhibitions for people living with vision impairment or blindness. A trained guide delivers descriptions of the visual elements of artworks exhibited, along with tactile opportunities using mixed media and 3D-printed models of the (...)

Slow your day down by joining us for a different kind of art gallery tour. We begin this session with a close observation of selected artworks from the current exhibitions, followed by an informal discussion on themes of empathy and compassion.

Experience the artwork at LWAG in Australian Sign Language. Join us for a free tour in Auslan of the current exhibitions guided by a gallery staff member and interpreter from Auslan Stage Left. We welcome adults with hearing loss and their friends and family on this tour. Community Partner: Auslan (...)

Join us for the launch of our 2019 Season 1 exhibition program, with the opening of two new exhibitions:

Love, Displaced • Film and video art offering new and innovative ways of navigating the white noise of contemporary life. | Artists include AES+F, Jacobus Capone, Jeremy Deller & (...)