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One of Australia's most highly regarded artists, Trevor Vickers will join Dr Sally Quin Curator of the UWA Art Collection and curator of Feeling abstract? in conversation within the exhibition. Born in SA in 1943 and now based in WA, Trevor Vickers exhibited in the ground-breaking and controversial The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Vickers lived and worked in Melbourne alongside Australia's best known conceptual and post-object artists including Robert Hunter, Paul Partos and Mike Brown. Following a period in England from the late 1970s to the mid-90s where he produced shaped paintings and a series of screenprints, he returned to Perth in 1995 where he has continued to explore hard-edge, minimal, geometric abstraction in his paintings. Vicker’s works are held by all the major art galleries nationally including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and numerous corporate collections such as Wesfarmers and Bankwest.

Join UWA School of Design MFA students Sacha Barker and Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson to see and hear about their work and recent pieces in their MFA graduation exhibition. Sacha Barker’s art embraces textile, sculpture and installation. Since her first major installation, Mindfield; the Sewing Seeds (2017), she has developed large site-specific installations that create a shared narrative with the viewer. A member of Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association (WAFTA), she has recently had work in the International Biennale Exhibition of Textile Art, Scythia. Authenticity, trust and tension permeate Sacha Barker’s research and creative practice. There is a commitment to human labour and rigorous technical experimentation. This presentation will focus on two works currently displayed in the MFA graduate exhibition at UWA’s Cullity Gallery: Untitled (rocks) (2017-2021) and There’s a saying among prospectors (2020). Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is an award-winning Iranian-Australian Bahá’í video artist, writer, director, producer and curator and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her research navigates inherited stories and post-memory felt by her displaced community following the 1979 Revolution. Through the poetics of the moving image, she invites viewers to become the 'witness' rather than the 'passive bystander' inviting a critical discussion surrounding empathy, trust, custodianship, compassion, and social change in response to the current global social and political climate. Her practise values align to empower the voices of women within her art making. Working in community arts and collaborative social practice, Áshena, Bear Witness to Me (2021) examines empathy in film and poetry, uncovering ways to build identity in first and second generation Iranian- Australians and the Bahá’í community, to close the gaps in finding the universal threads of cultural, social, gender and heritage that unite us all.

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Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Equitable and desirable solutions to the climate crisis require a grounded understanding of diverse values and aspirations of citizens and denizens in our societies. Drawing upon feminist geographies, Professor Petra Tschakert and Dr. Karen Paiva Henrique examine the role of social difference across gender, race, class, ethnicity, age, and other dimensions of inequality and how they intersect to shape embodied experiences of climatic changes and narratives of both harm and hope. Transitions to more just and liveable futures entail active engagement with uneven power structures to dismantle persistent patterns of domination that favour the privileged rather than the most vulnerable, and an inclusive approach to climate justice that recognises and promotes more-than-human flourishing. Professor Petra Tschakert is a human-environment geographer and conducts research at the intersection of political feminist ecology, climate change adaptation, livelihood security, and environmental, social, climate, and multispecies justice. Her current work examines intangible harm in the context of climate change, with particular emphasis on differential vulnerabilities and persistent inequalities. Dr Karen Paiva Henrique is a human-environment geographer working at the intersection of climate adaptation, cities, and multiple dimensions of justice. Her research focuses on climate adaptation planning and politics to examine how individuals with unequal resources and decision-making power protect what they value against the impacts of simultaneous crises. Campus Partner: Department of Geography and Planning

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Join curator Lee Kinsella for an Auslan-interpreted tour and talk of Matter, examining ideas behind the exhibition and the selection of artwork.

Matter Works from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art 10 July to 27 November 2021

Featuring works of grit, weight and significance, Matter focuses on materials and materiality.

The exhibition brings together paintings by Lisa Wolfgramm, Carol Rudyard, Susan Norrie, Amanda Davies and Julie Dowling; ceramics by Joan Campbell, the Hermannsburg Potters Group and Toni Warburton; textiles by Eveline Kotai and Rhonda and Susannah Hamlyn; installation works by Michele Nikou and Sarah Goffman and more.

Curated by Lee Kinsella, Curator, Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.

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].

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

The new semester brings new exhibitions to LWAG! We’re keeping the gallery doors open late on Thursday 5 August – come stop in to enjoy complimentary drinks and nibbles alongside a special tour of the latest exhibitions with UWA Art Collection Curator Sally Quin. Don’t miss the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look into the new exhibitions and to find out what’s coming up this semester at LWAG. Now showing to 27 November: Feeling abstract? Feeling abstract? explores abstract painting over a forty year period through works in the UWA Art Collection. The exhibition features works by artists Sydney Ball, George Haynes, Margot Lewers, Erica McGilchrist, Tony Tuckson, and Jenny Watson, among many others. Feeling abstract? is a unique opportunity to view dynamic, large-scale paintings from the Collection, several of which have been included in major national exhibitions but have not been on public display at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for several decades. +  Matter Featuring works of grit, weight and significance, Matter focuses on materials and materiality. The exhibition brings together paintings by Lisa Wolfgramm, Carol Rudyard, Susan Norrie, Amanda Davies and Julie Dowling; ceramics by Joan Campbell, the Hermannsburg Potters Group and Toni Warburton; textiles by Eveline Kotai and Rhonda and Susannah Hamlyn; installation works by Michele Nikou and Sarah Goffman and more.

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].

Experience the artwork at LWAG in Australian Sign Language.

Join Sally Quin, Curator of the UWA Art Collection, for a free Auslan-interpreted tour of the exhibition Feeling abstract?

Community Partner: Auslan Stage Left



Feeling abstract? Paintings from the UWA Art Collection, 1950–1990 17 July to 27 November 2021

Feeling abstract? explores abstract painting over a forty year period through works in the UWA Art Collection.

The exhibition features key examples of Australian abstraction of the 20th century and is a unique opportunity to view dynamic, large-scale paintings from the Collection, several of which have been included in major national exhibitions but have not been on public display at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for several decades.

Curated by Sally Quin, Curator, UWA Art Collection.



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 please check-in upon arrival and observe social distancing. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite or notify our staff at [email protected].

Join highly regarded artist George Haynes as he discusses his work in the current exhibition Feeling abstract? Described as a master of light and colour, his work has brought joy and inspiration to numerous other artists as well as the public for over 60 years.



George Haynes was born in Kenya in 1938 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London, before he moved to Western Australia in 1962. Shortly after, he started exhibiting at Skinner Galleries, the first commercial gallery in Perth and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally ever since.

Haynes has held numerous solo and joint exhibitions and in 1988 the Art Gallery of Western Australian held his retrospective and his 80th year was celebrated with the Recent and Retrospective Paintings exhibition at Art Collective WA in 2018.

Haynes has received numerous awards and accolades and his works are held by major art galleries nationally including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW along with numerous university and corporate collections such as Wesfarmers and Bankwest as well as numerous private collections. Feeling abstract? Paintings from the UWA Art Collection, 1950–1990 17 July to 27 November 2021

Feeling abstract? explores abstract painting over a forty year period through works in the UWA Art Collection.

The exhibition features key examples of Australian abstraction of the 20th century and is a unique opportunity to view dynamic, large-scale paintings from the Collection, several of which have been included in major national exhibitions but have not been on public display at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for several decades.

Curated by Sally Quin, Curator, UWA Art Collection.



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 please check-in upon arrival and observe social distancing. If you are feeling unwell, please cancel your booking on Eventbrite or notify our staff at [email protected].

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.

Join a conversation with Sarah Douglas, UWA Fine Arts Major Coordinator, in the School of Design, together with three Fine Arts students to unpack: “What makes our time definitive and how current art expressions may be reflecting new kinds of worldliness”

Campus Partner: Fine Arts, School of Design

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].

Begin your journey at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and discover some of the unique artworks that are situated throughout the beautiful grounds of the University of Western Australia. Finish back at the gallery and follow with an afternoon tea served on the verandah. Cost: $30 Friends, $35 Non-members ----------------- 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.  ----------------- Enquiries: please contact Donna Greenwood, Manager of Retail and Functions at LWAG, at [email protected] or (08) 6488 3977 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.

Free concert every Wednesday during semester.