What's On at UWA

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

Chris Milne - DMA Recital

This week, under the baton of Doctor of Musical Arts candidate Chris Milne the (...)

Visual and sonic art overlap in this special evening premiering new works by UWA Conservatorium of Music students.

Using artworks in the exhibitions HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer, Drew Pettifer: A Sorrowful Act and (Un)ladylike Acts at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as inspiration, the (...)

The vision of the UWA Conservatorium of Music is to enrich all lives with music. Through UWA’s broadening units, all undergraduate students have the opportunity to engage in practical music-making as part of their degree.

Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic (...)

A jam-packed program of stimulating performances and events in 2020 showcases the immense talent of our young emerging artists and their mentors, along with celebrated alumni, and national and internationally recognised guest artists. From workshops and lectures to intimate chamber performances and (...)

Calling all Brass players and enthusiasts! Join us at the UWA Conservatorium of Music on 31 October for an exciting day of performances, workshops and clinics led by some of WA’s finest performers and educators!

Featuring:Jenna Smith (trumpet - WASO), Rob Gladstones (horn – WASO) (...)

A deliriously delicious, bitingly bitchy, groundbreaking gay play comes to Perth!

Award-winning director Barry Park is at the helm of GRADS’ production of Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking smash hit play THE BOYS IN THE BAND, which will be staged at The Dolphin Theatre, UWA from 4th to (...)

Join representatives from the University, Guild, Convocation of UWA Graduates and the WA University Regiment to commemorate this important date.

Join Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray, Lecturer in Gender Studies at UWA, to contemplate Kate Just’s 'In my skin'.

‘Knitting in public turns the interiority of the domestic outward.’ (Bratich & Brush, 2011)

Feminist thinkers and artists have long contemplated the (...)

Thinking Queerly is a symposium examining the links between queer histories and their social contexts through the lens of art practices.

It features keynote presentations from Australian jurist, academic and former Justice of the High Court, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG and Dunja Rmandi&a (...)

Join us to hear different perspectives on issues of concern to the LGBTQI+ community in a series of presentations followed by a panel discussion. Chaired by Liberty Cramer, Chair of UWA’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee. Presenters include: · Anna Kimpton, Head of UWA Pride Department in the (...)

Visitors are invited to join anthropologist Dennis Gray as he introduces the Dennis Gray Collection at the Berndt Museum and discusses his current work on it. The Dennis Gray Collection provides a story of the 'Carnarvon Reserve Mob': the people, their social interactions, residential patterns (...)

Visitors are invited to join anthropologist Dennis Gray as he introduces the Dennis Gray Collection at the Berndt Museum and discusses his current work on it.

The Dennis Gray Collection provides a story of the 'Carnarvon Reserve Mob': the people, their social interactions, residential (...)

From the early 1950s until the early 1970s, the Australian guitar-making company Maton manufactured the Alver, a budget line plywood guitar aimed at students and beginners. From November 1964 until December 1972, the National Service Scheme, in its then latest incarnation, operated in Australia. Ar (...)

Join Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lee Kinsella, as she shares insights about the artworks in Paper Cut .

Paper Cut 27 February - 5 June 2021

Works on paper have often been considered secondary to media such as sculpture or painting, thought of as visual (...)

Join us for this workshop for senior school teachers designed for our current exhibition Paper Cut.

Introduced by Curator of Academic and Public Programs, Dr Janice Lally, we will be joined by Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lee Kinsella, who will share insights about (...)

Join recent UWA students and artists Amy Neville and Isabella Rossaro for a talk exploring their work and participation in the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Neville, the curator of Students in Residence, will discuss the ideas behind the exhibition and the process bringing it together (...)

Join artist Jude Adams for a tour of the exhibition Paper Cut as she discusses her own work and others’ including that of fellow South Australian based artist, Ann Newmarch.

Jude Adams has a decades-spanning career in the visual arts covering a range of practices and disciplines. The (...)

Join us for an afternoon of talks and panel discussions addressing issues connected to feminism today from a range of perspectives and experiences.

The symposium will feature a keynote talks by artist Jude Adams.

Co-organised by the Asian Art Museum and Lawrence Wilson Art (...)

Join recent UWA students and artists Debbie Gilchrist and Julie Robyn Ziegenhardt for a talk exploring their work and participation in the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Julie Robyn Ziegenhardt explores her evolving understanding of the world around her through the reimagining of objects (...)

Abstraction did not just begin with Kandinsky or Picasso. Elements of abstraction can be found in all Art, but there were events and ideas in the Modernist era which caused artists to develop these elements. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The major thinkers of the time were Darwin (...)