What's On at UWA

Sasha Ivanovich has travelled to the UAE to study the amazing city of Masdar, hailed to be the world's first carbon neutral city. The lecture will be followed by drinks.

Work from visiting artists from the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI), Denpasar, will be on display in the gallery with an official reception to be held on 26 September, to welcome guests.

This lecture examines one of the most intense cities in the world. Hong Kong's irregular coastline and steep terrain has resulted in built-up areas that are compact. rich in spatial experience, all parts close to hills and water and connected by an exceptional public transport system.

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Friday talk with SymbioticA resident artist Amy Congdon Date: 7 Oct 2011 Time: 3:30pm Venue: SymbioticA HQ Speaker: Amy Congdon

Current resident Amy Congdon will be talking about a selection of her previous projects and research interests. As well as this she will be reflecting on her (...)

Join Peter Newman, one of Australia's leading sustainability experts and Curtin's Professor of Sustainability as he discusses the possibility of a low carbon city for the future.

Peter has worked extensively in the field reviving and extending Perth's rail system, serving as the (...)

A. Professor, Jon Tarry, will discuss the art works in Recent Past as explorations of the 70s and 80s Australian vernacular which focussed on the local, the everyday, and the 'here and now' of the times. Much of this has been replaced today by internationalism, and a desire to seek out Otherness (...)

For CREATEC’s annual symposium, researchers across disciplines will gather to consider the influence of embodiment on their work. Embodiment is a concept that underpins an array of research ranging from education and environmental studies, poetry and the performing arts to philosophy and (...)

Interested in finding out more about Student Exchange? It's not too late!

The next deadline for applications is FRIDAY 2nd December (for exchange in Semester 2, 2012). Come along to a helpful info session and talk to a friendly Exchange Adviser and the ALVA Faculty's Academic Student (...)

Transformation Through Drawing is a series of student works that respond to the theme of transformation and change through ageing, movement, systems of codification and extreme viewpoints. Students have been given an opportunity to demonstrate the acquisition of new skills and the appreciation and (...)

Bertrand Russell has suggested that learning begins with inarticulate certainty and moves towards articulate doubt. Creative endeavour requires doubt, and failure: studios and workshops open spaces for it, practitioners accept it as an ever-present possibility, a state to embrace, or as the (...)

View the work of final year Bachelor of Fine Arts students for a limited time at the Cullity Gallery. A collection of pieces curated by Dr.Peter Mudie showcasing talent and skilled practice in a variety of media.

Alumni, current students and friends of ALVA are cordially invited to attend an evening featuring guest lectures by Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady & John de Manincor followed by an exclusive preview of the End of Year Exhibition of student work in the Cullity Gallery, where refreshments will (...)

Winthrop Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Visual Arts, Simon Anderson invites interested members of the public to view an exhibition of architecture and landscape architecture students’ work from second semester this year. The display is a result of (...)

The Coppelia Project is a programme of research, development, and artwork production aimed at the creation of a troupe of four robot ballerinas able to learn and perform dance movements and interact with an audience. The project is being undertaken by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman with assistance from (...)

In my paper I will present the exhibition "jenseits des menschen, beyond humans" I curated in 2010 for the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité, putting new works by the Berlin based artist Reiner Maria Matysik as part of the Interventions series on show, which was initiated in (...)

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Museums presents an informative lunchtime conversation this Friday 9 March, 1pm. This is a free public talk, all welcome.

University Art Collections play a vital role in the acquisition, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art to a diverse (...)

You are cordially invited to the official opening of the to be held at the Cullity Gallery at 6pm on Friday 9 March. The exhibition, curated by Rene Van Meeuwen, features animations of unbuilt architectural projects from Western Australia using augmented reality, including a rare glimpse of a (...)

In conjunction with the Unbuilt Perth exhibition, a half day symposium will be held on Saturday 10 March in the Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre. The symposium will be centred around the exhibition’s theme of unbuilt work from Perth and its surrounds, with presentations by local architects, artists (...)

This exhibition is the latest in a continuing series that document the work of significant Western Australian architects and follows an exhibition on the work of Raymond Jones last year. Curated by Simon Anderson, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at UWA, and UWA (...)

ALVA architecture alumnus Clare Porter was recipient of the 2008 Ferguson Travel Scholarship. Her presentation on Japanese residential architecture features the work of: A.L.X_ (ARCHITECT LABEL XAIN), AAT_ MAKOTO YOKOMIZO, AKITOSHI UKAI_ AUAU, ALPHAVILLE, AMORPHE_ TAKEYAMA + ASSOCIATES, ATELIER BOW (...)