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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
Arts and Cultural events
 February 2021
Saturday 27
14:00 - TALK - Curator's Talk + Tour: Paper Cut : Lee Kinsella, Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, leads a tour of the exhibition. Website | More Information
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 research and preliminary material. Paper Cut challenges such ideas by offering an alternative view on art history via a dynamic and eclectic survey of a century of paper-based practice by Australian women artists, including Mary MacQueen, Barbara Brash, Lesbia Thorpe, Joy Hester, Jude Adams, Ann Newmarch, Rosella Namok, TextaQueen and many more.

These artists have utilised the inherent advantages of paper as a medium; it being readily accessible, flexible, adaptive and ephemeral. The resulting broad range of subject matter includes biting social critique and calls for change in the form of political posters and collages, editioned prints of still lifes and domestic interiors, and abstract renderings of landscape – historical and contemporary. A community residency space will encourage dialogue between printed material being produced now and objects from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art.

15:30 - WORKSHOP - PD Workshop for Teachers: Paper Cut : A Professional Development event for senior school teachers for our current exhibition Paper Cut. Website | More Information
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 the artworks in the exhibition, addressing a range of learning areas of the Visual Arts and HASS topics in the WA CSA for students.

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 research and preliminary material. Paper Cut challenges such ideas by offering an alternative view on art history via a dynamic and eclectic survey of a century of paper-based practice by Australian women artists, including Mary MacQueen, Barbara Brash, Lesbia Thorpe, Joy Hester, Jude Adams, Ann Newmarch, Rosella Namok, TextaQueen and many more.

These artists have utilised the inherent advantages of paper as a medium; it being readily accessible, flexible, adaptive and ephemeral. The resulting broad range of subject matter includes biting social critique and calls for change in the form of political posters and collages, editioned prints of still lifes and domestic interiors, and abstract renderings of landscape – historical and contemporary. A community residency space will encourage dialogue between printed material being produced now and objects from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. Curated by Lee Kinsella, Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.


 March 2021
Thursday 04
13:00 - TALK - Paper Cut: Students in Residence Talk I : Join UWA students and artists Isabella Rossaro and Amy Neville for a discussion on the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Website | More Information
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, and Rossaro will discuss her work on display.

Isabella Rossaro is an emerging Perth artist fresh out of an Undergraduate degree in Zoology and Fine Arts. Specialising in monoprinting and illustration, she manipulates ink with graphite drawing, natural found objects and medication packaging. Isabella pairs these traditional mediums with biological polymer clay forms. She is very passionate about invisible illness and gender inequality, especially communicating the struggle caused by endometriosis and major depressive disorder. Her practice is heavily influenced by scientific findings, especially genetic research, looking to amplify its importance in reproductive health.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.
Friday 05
13:00 - TALK - Friday Talk with artist Jude Adams. : Artist Jude Adams leads a talk and tour of the exhibition Paper Cut. Website | More Information
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 thread linking her work, whether visual, text-based or performative, is a commitment to feminist strategies and the significance of women's material practice. In the 1970s, Adams became an active member of the Women's Art Movement (Sydney 1974-76) (Adelaide 1978-85) and coordinated the Lovely Motherhood Show (1981), a collective-based exhibition that, like other 'memory cycle' projects, sought to give voice to women's experience. More recently, Adams has participated in the resurgence of women-only collectives, such as Feminist Renewal Art Network (FRAN) (2015) and co-coordination of FRANFEST (2017), a month-long, multi-venue event that included exhibitions, talks and symposia.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.

Paper Cut is an exhibition of works on paper from UWA's Cruthers Collection of Women's Art. The 'cut' in the exhibition's title refers to both the technique and to the incisive cut of much of the subject-matter. It is a mass showing that reveals the particular strengths of the collection and the remarkable breadth of content, featuring many works on public display for the first time. A Paper Cut residency program complements the collection display, showcasing print media and paper forms currently being produced by four local groups in dialogue with the themes, materials, strategies and processes of the exhibition. Curated by Lee Kinsella, Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.

Content advisory: Paper Cut contains images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Some works in the exhibition refer to adult themes.
Saturday 06
12:30 - SYMPOSIUM - International Women's Day Symposium : A symposium exploring issues relevant to experiences of feminism today. Website | More Information
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 Gallery.

Tickets $10
Thursday 11
13:00 - TALK - Paper Cut: Students in Residence Talk II : Join UWA students and artists Debbie Gilchrist and Julie Robyn Ziegenhardt for a discussion on the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Website | More Information
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 and spaces from her everyday life. Conventionalised cultural signifiers are manipulated and reimagined to unpack the ways in which one’s understanding of the past is constantly shifting as this relationship is carried into the present. This is done through the interrogation of the ‘everyday ’and the ‘mundane ’using digital illustration, sculpture, and writing. Robyn uses aspects of her own experiences to visualise ambiguous narratives. These narratives open up spaces for the reflection and ever-changing possibilities of the small and unspectacular aspects of human life.

Perth based artist Debbie Gilchrist specialises in portraiture and socially engaged art intended to promote reflection and discussion. A multidisciplinary artist exploring many art forms, her work ranges from drawn images to prints, pen and ink and other media. During COVID lockdown, availability of lino in her cupboard and discussions and contemplations with her teenage daughters inspired an exploration of reduction lino printing with a focus on women’s equity. Alarmed to find that the word “feminism” had become a dirty word for a younger generation of women, and keen to reclaim the word as an expression of a wish for equity, her current print works explore the barriers that still remain for women in our current society.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.
Saturday 13
13:00 - LECTURE - FOLWAG lecture series: Abstraction - always with us but a long time coming : The Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to join Dr Jan Altmann in discussion as part of the new Art History Lecture series More Information
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, Freud, Marx and Einstein, and with these the Western World View and its Art changed forever. Refreshments provided Cost: $10

Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery The Friends are an integral part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and provide support for its activities, ranging from the acquisition of new works to providing artistic and technical facilities. This support is achieved through memberships, donations and fundraising activities. 

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite.
Tuesday 16
13:00 - EVENT - Art Break : Take a break from your day and unwind at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery during our new Art Break series! Website | More Information
Take a break from your day and unwind at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery during one of our new Art Breaks!

Let your creativity loose and have a play with a range of arts and crafts materials, wander through the current exhibitions, page through a wide variety of art books on one of our comfy couches, or join a guided session that combines elements of mindfulness, close-looking and discussion.

Organised during the UWA common lunch hour, Art Break offers an opportunity to relax and destress, either individually or socially, at your university gallery.

2021 Semester 1 Art Breaks: Tuesday 16 March, 1-2pm | Tuesday 13 April, 1-2pm | Tuesday 11 May, 1-2pm

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is strongly encouraged. Hand sanitiser will be available at the door and we ask that visitors observe social distancing. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking.
Wednesday 17
13:00 - TALK - Paper Cut: Students in Residence Talk III : Join UWA students and artists Sky Edwards and Annique Cockerill for a discussion on the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Website | More Information
Join recent UWA students and artists Sky Edwards and Annique Cockerill for a talk exploring their work and participation in the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Sky Edwards' graduating work, U-193-x, examines contemporary ecologies of colonised natural spaces. Their work is place- and process-driven, beginning with site exploration, macro photography of lifeforms, and found object collection. These are modified, mutated, and recombined sequentially with neural networks, weathering, drawing, painting, sculpture, and other techniques, resulting in 2D and 3D art objects. Sky also practices science art combining experience and techniques as both a scientist and an artist. They are driven by process and material, with a particular love of paint, experimental photography, and neural network collaboration. They explore the Weird to create fundamentally new and unfamiliar imagery. Their work is created from experience of place and the natural world, especially near Derbarl Yerrigan, while remaining conscious of their position as a descendent of white colonists who cannot speak for or over Noongar people. Sky explores mental health through art and as a nonbinary transgender person their work touches on queer experience. Annique Cockerill stumbled across the medium of papercutting entirely by accident as a teenager, messing with her mother's craft blades. From that point she became obsessed with pushing the limits of paper structure. Each piece is hand cut, with a focus on producing the entire work as a connected single sheet. She enjoys playing with illusions of disconnect rendered in flat paper and shadow. Her work is oriented around projections of the self in space: mental and physical. These two concepts of the self overlap, but don’t always align and are fragile. Much of her work deals with the involuntary transformations of the mind-body relationship, including the sense of agency or ownership over the physical self in life and beyond. In a gendered context, this deals with how queer or female bodies become disjointed through layers of social constructs, but also extends into mental health and death positivity. Annique’s works act as a contemporary Memento Mori: reminders of mortality running against modern death-phobic social constructs. She draws inspiration from Renaissance woodblock printing, particularly Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death series, as well as contemporary ink and paper artists.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.
Saturday 20
14:00 - EVENT - Stories and Weaving with Janine McAullay Bott : A Friday Talk and weaving demonstration with Noongar artist Janine McAullay Bott. Website | More Information
Join Noongar artist Janine McAullay Bott as she demonstrates her weaving process and shares stories behind the artworks she creates.

McAullay Bott will discuss her work and practice, including pieces like Kangaroo and Joey, currently on view in the Berndt Museum exhibition Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved and Twined. In addition, her piece Quokka Roger, Racket and Ball (2018) has been acquired for the Wadjeump Museum Collection on Rottnest Island where it is currently exhibited until November 2021.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.

----------------- Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined 13 February - 5 June 2021 Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved and Twined delves into the depths of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology’s object collection, illuminating a diverse menagerie of animal representations from across Indigenous Australia.

The exhibition showcases over 100 years of creation practices by Indigenous Australian peoples, for whom the creatures of the land, water and sky were, are, and forever will be, deeply ingrained in their culture and beliefs. Presented by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.

15:30 - WORKSHOP - Ed Kit Launch + PD Workshop for Teachers: Creatures : A Professional Development event for school teachers for our current exhibition Creatures. Website | More Information
Join us for this workshop for school teachers designed for our current exhibition Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved and Twined. Presented by visual arts educator Erin Knight and LWAG Curator of Academic and Public programs Dr Janice Lally, the workshop will address themes from the exhibition in context of HASS and Visual Arts relationships to WA SCSA.

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined 27 February - 5 June 2021 Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved and Twined delves into the depths of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology’s object collection illuminating a diverse menagerie of animal representations from across Indigenous Australia.

The exhibition showcases over 100 years of creation practices by Indigenous Australian peoples, for whom the creatures of the land, water and sky were, are, and forever will be, deeply ingrained in their culture and beliefs. Presented by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.

 April 2021
Saturday 10
12:30 - EVENT - Zine Workshop : Explore zine making and book binding techniques in this workshop. Website | More Information
Join artists Carla Adams and Joanne Richardson for this workshop exploring zine making and book binding techniques. The workshop is organised alongside Fold, Stitch & Staple, an exhibition library of DIY publications in the Paper Cut residency gallery curated by Adams and featuring zines by Richardson, among others.  All materials necessary for the workshop will be provided, including collage material, paper, needles and thread, but participants are also welcome to bring their own collage material.

$20 concession | $30 standard

Carla Adams was born in Perth (1984) and graduated with first class honours from Curtin University in 2014. Her work incorporates sculpture, textiles, craft practices, painting, drawing, research and book-making to navigate the complexities of relationships from an embodied, female perspective. Adams’ work has been exhibited at Art Gallery of WA,  Turner Galleries, Bus Projects (Melbourne), FELTSpace (Adelaide), ARTBAR at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Verge Gallery (Sydney) and Blindside (Melbourne). Adams’ work was selected for the 2013 Hatched National Graduate Exhibition at PICA; she was a finalist in the 2017 and 2020 Joondalup Invitation Art Awards.

Joanne Richardson creates drawings and sculptural works incorporating DIY methods and humble materials to create whimsical disruptions. Richardson’s PhD work (Curtin University 2017) titled: ‘Resolutely Inclusive: Merz Art Practice and Einfuhlung’ is long but has many pictures and explores art practice as activity, weaving links between everyday life and Art concerns. Currently works as a Sessional Academic in the school of Media Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.
Tuesday 13
13:00 - EVENT - Art Break : Take a break from your day and unwind at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's monthly Art Breaks Website | More Information
Take a break from your day and drop in at LWAG for our new monthly Art Break series. Let your creativity loose and have a play with a range of arts and crafts materials, wander through the current exhibitions, page through a wide variety of art books on one of our comfy couches, or join a guided session combining elements of mindfulness, close-looking and discussion. Art Breaks take place during the UWA common lunch hour and offer opportunities to relax and destress, either individually or socially, at your university gallery. 2021 Semester 1 Art Breaks: Tuesday 16 March, 1-2pm; Tuesday 13 April, 1-2pm; Tuesday 11 May, 1-2pm

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required.
Wednesday 14
13:00 - CONCERT - LUNCHTIME CONCERT : UWA Voice and Gladys Chua More Information
Free concert every Wednesday during semester.
Thursday 15
18:00 - WORKSHOP - Art and Medicine Workshop : Medical and art historical skills come together in this free workshop for professional medical and health practitioners. Website | More Information
Medical and art historical skills come together in this free workshop for medical and health practitioners led by Dr John Terry and Dr Janice Lally. Investigate visual language and refine your communication skills while exploring topical social and cultural themes through close observation of artworks in the exhibition Dislocation at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Dr John Terry is the Clinical Director of the UWA Guild Medical Clinic. A GP for over 25 years, he has worked in Psychiatry, Travel and Emergency Medicine. He has always found the world of visual art a source of inspiration and education and is delighted to be able to make art a very real practical tool for improving observation and communication in the medical setting. Dr Janice Lally is Curator of Academic and Public Programs at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. She is an art historian who also worked for over 20 years as a medical research scientist, including in neurophysiology and clinical biochemistry. For Dr Lally, bringing knowledge of art together with science is a means of enriching and extending appreciation and understandings in both.

Campus Partners: UWA Medical Centre and UWA Student Life

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required. Hand sanitiser will be available at the door and we ask that visitors observe social distancing. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite or notify our staff at [email protected].
Friday 16
10:00 - EVENT - ATAR Music Boot Camp : Get ATAR ready with hands-on workshops. More Information
Tickets $20 (scholarships available): trybooking.com/BOCJE

16:00 - EVENT - Accelerate! Guitars : Weekly workshops, masterclasses and rehearsals culminating in a joint concert with the UWA Guitar Studio. More Information
Free registration: [email protected]
Saturday 17
14:00 - PERFORMANCE - Re-creation: Exploring ekphrasis through words and music : Premiere of a new composition by UWA students created in response to artworks on display and performed by the St George College Choir. Website | More Information
Referring originally to the capacity of visual description to conjure a thing as if it were physically present, ekphrasis is itself reinterpreted by Caitlyn Stone and Joshua Adams and presented in this new work. Words by Caitlyn and music by Joshua will respond to the affective pull of artworks on display in the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, promising new ways of looking at, and thinking about, these pieces as well as the relations between sound and writing. The new compositions will be presented by the St George College Choir. Introduction by Associate Professor Tanya Dalziel of the Discipline of English and Literary Studies, School of Humanities, UWA. Campus and Community Partners: Discipline of English and Literary Studies and St Georges College Choir

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required. Hand sanitiser will be available at the door and we ask that visitors observe social distancing. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite or notify our staff at [email protected].
Wednesday 21
13:00 - CONCERT - LUNCHTIME CONCERT : UWA Percussion More Information
Free concert every Wednesday during semester.
Saturday 24
13:00 - LECTURE - FOLWAG lecture series: Art, Politics, Satire and Social Comment : The Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to join Dr Jan Altmann in discussion as part of the new Art History Lecture series Website | More Information
Most of our art is political in one way or another. Even works which are mainly narrative or descriptive often contain references to events of their times, or to social attitudes generally. Abstraction in America was encouraged because it was opposed to the Social Realism of the Soviet Union. Refreshments provided Cost: $10

----------------- Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery The Friends are an integral part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and provide support for its activities, ranging from the acquisition of new works to providing artistic and technical facilities. This support is achieved through memberships, donations and fundraising activities.  -----------------

Please note: in keeping with the University's guidelines, space is limited for this event and registration is required. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite

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