What's On at UWA

Slow down your day by joining us for a different kind of art gallery tour. Similar to mindfulness exercises that focus on your breathing, in this tour we settle our minds on the artwork. We begin this session with a close observation of selected artworks from the current exhibitions, followed by an (...)

This is your night! Gather your family and friends and join Santa for the 2019 UWA Christmas Concert in support of Lifeline WA. The UWA Conservatorium of Music, national artists and community choirs will perform all your favourite Christmas songs.

Hosted by Nadia Mitsopoulos (ABC and (...)

Come along and express yourself in more ways than one through the art of collage. Paper and other materials will be provided to give you the challenge to create a work that is visual as well as textual. This workshop will be led by Western Australian artist Olivia Colja, and has been developed in (...)

Join the Perth Orchestra Project and conductor Izaak Wesson for a concert of tragedy, triumph, and raw emotion as we explore the concept of ‘heroes’ through music. This concert meditates on the question of ‘what is a hero, and how do they shape our lives?’, examining the ways in which three (...)

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invites you to the launch of its Season 1 2020 program, featuring the opening of two new exhibitions: 'The Long Kiss Goodbye' and 'Boomerang - A National Symbol'.

Light refreshments will be served.

Presented in association with Perth Festival, 'The (...)

Get a behind-the-scenes look into Perth Festival’s Visual Arts 2020 program on this city-wide tour starting and finishing in the Perth Cultural Centre. Buy a bus ticket and take part in the full day of events from 10am-5pm, or choose your own adventure and meet up at different points along the (...)

Join us at LWAG for our program for visitors living with dementia and their carers or family members. Let’s Meet provides a forum for conversation through the shared viewing and exploration of artworks on display – highlighting themes, artists, and artworks currently exhibited. Community (...)

The Long Kiss Goodbye explores how artists transform familiar materials into complex meditations on love, loss, attraction and repulsion. Learn more about the exhibition on this tour and discussion with curator and Perth Festival Visual Arts Program Associate Gemma Weston.

Join us for this special event, custom-designed event to connect school teachers with our current exhibition The Long Kiss Goodbye.

Co-led by visual arts educator Erin Knight, UWA Graduate School of Education, and art historian Dr Janice Lally, LWAG Curator of Academic and Public (...)

The Friends of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery present the next theme in their Art History Lecture Series: Australian Landscape Then and Now. Presented by Carl Altmann, this new series will look at numerous different aspects of landscape paintings from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century (...)

Artist Penny Coss presents a new performance work in response to her installation featured in The Long Kiss Goodbye.

For Pendulum Acts, Coss will drag, shift and erase layers of her installation to reference her encounters in the landscape as a democratic space, where hierarchies shift (...)

Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra's Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by (...)

The Friends of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to join them on a visit to Robertson Park Artists Studios. Robertson Park is an independent, self-funded, non-profit studio collectively run by artists Graham Hay, Frances Dennis, Bethamy Linton, Sarah Jane Merchant, Christopher McClelland and Ca (...)

Diana Warnock, a former newspaper and radio journalist, went into politics at the age of 52 when she was elected as the State member of Parliament for Perth in 1993. Before entering politics, Diana was an activist for about 30 years for women’s rights and for minorities, and always belonged to (...)

Bring your friends to LWAG’s next Art Party and join us in celebrating a new academic semester! Enjoy a free sundowner, art-making activities, live music, gallery tours, door prizes and more. Drinks / Music / Door Prizes / Art Activities / Tours Campus Partner: Student Guild

Take some time to slow down your day on this unique gallery tour. Similar to mindfulness exercises that focus on your breathing, in this tour we will settle our minds on the artwork. The session includes close observation of selected artworks from the current exhibitions, followed by an informal (...)

Due to popular demand, we have scheduled a second workshop with artist Michele Elliot.

Fabric and clothing hold memories. The weaver, the maker and the wearer all leave their imprint; worn out and much-loved clothes equally so. Join Michele Elliot in a contemplative textile workshop (...)

Fabric and clothing hold memories. The weaver, the maker and the wearer all leave their imprint; worn out and much-loved clothes equally so. Join Michele Elliot in a contemplative textile workshop focused on embroidery and cloth collage.

Michele Elliot is a visual artist, educator and (...)

Armed with a Maton Alver guitar that he bought a long time ago, Steve Chinna takes you on a trip with tales, songs and images into a time of living a future deferred, when national service beckoned, the Vietnam War loomed large, Bob Dylan betrayed his fans (yet again), and pop, folk and protest (...)

Death and mourning often lead to rituals that acknowledge and assist with loss and grief. Creativity through art practices that include visual art, dance and song, enrich and comprise ritual that brings empathic connectivity between people and communities, bringing solace and comfort, together with (...)