What's On at UWA

‘More than the sum of the parts?’ addresses interrelationships between art practice, architecture, landscape architecture, art history and criticism. The lecture will consider the roles, relationships, scope and creative tensions surrounding artists’ collaborations with other creative (...)

Aaron Seeto will be presenting a special lecture and a tour of the current exhibition 'ORIENTing' at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Saturday May 4, 2pm.

Free Event, No RSVP required.

Aaron Seeto is a curator of contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian art. His curatorial (...)

John McGeachie shares his first-hand experiences of working in Papua New Guinea during the 60s and 70s in a talk at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 10 May 2013.

As a dental surgeon, John worked on patrols to remote regions of the Eastern Highlands in PNG.

John will (...)

Join us at this CURATINGforum for a lively discussion on contemporary curatorial practice on the 22 May 2013, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The panellists are Anne Loxley, Curator C3West of Museum of Contemporary Art; Stefano Carboni, Director at the Art Gallery of Western (...)

Michael Alpers shares his experiences of the changes that took place in the South Fore villages (Papua New Guinea) in this insightful talk at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 24 May 2013.

In the 1960s, Michael Alpers (John Curtin Distinguished Professor of International Health (...)

Come along to this free public talk with Prof Christopher Crouch as he discusses tradition in contemporary Chinese visual culture on the 31st of May at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

This talk is part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery public program and accompanies the current (...)

Join Joanna in exploring the visual representations of war and trauma in South and North Korean arts of the Cold War period, in a talk on Friday 7 June at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Joanna's presentation will examine how visual arts have been used in both countries to create (...)

Join Romit Dasgupta in a talk discussing the transformations of the 'imaginings' of Japan on Friday 14 June at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Over the post-World War Two decades, ‘imaginings’ of Japan in public discourse in Australia have undergone radical and often unanticipated (...)

Join curators Ted Snell and Sally Quin for an informative tour of the exhibition ORIENTing on Saturday 15 June 2pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

ORIENTing presents a rare opportunity to see important works by Ian Fairweather from public and private collections in Western Australia (...)

Join us this Friday 28 June at 6pm for the opening night of the exhibition Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs from Western Arnhem Land at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Light refreshments will be available.

Doors open: 5pm | Event starts: 6pm

Drawn (...)

This workshop will get you thinking like a writer, introduce the main elements of writing fiction, and start you off on some exercises designed to focus your attention on craft and inspire your imagination.

Amanda Curtin, PhD, AE is the author of the novels Elemental, The Sinkings and (...)

As part of the WinterARTS Festival and in celebration of the magnificent exhibition ORIENTing on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, join Western Australian guitarist Christine Yeong for an intimate performance and evening viewing of works. Yeong, brings her passionate, energetic, and unique (...)

Join Melissa for an in-depth look at the exhibition Towards Perth on Friday July 5, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

'Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists before 1950' is drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art and runs from 4 May 2013 until 13 July 2013 at the (...)

As part of WINTERarts at UWA, join us for a family focus day at the Berdt Museum to celebrate our new exhibition Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land. There will be storytelling, performance, a special talk by Dr John Stanton and hands-on activities in the Gallery. For (...)

‘A Glint of Light on Broken Glass’: Short Story Writing with Susan Midalia

Susan Midalia is a Perth-based writer and freelance editor who conducts workshops on short story writing. Her first short story collection, A History of the Beanbag and other stories, was shortlisted for the (...)

*Please note that the calligraphy workshops are now fully booked*

Enrol in a free Chinese calligraphy workshop run by the Confucius Institute on Friday 12 July 1pm and 3pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The Confucius Institute at UWA seeks to foster cross-cultural (...)

To mark the last day of the exhibition ORIENTing, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is launching the official ORIENTing book along with two video works by artists-in-residence Abdul Abdullah and Casey Aryes on Saturday 13 July 4pm.

This is also the last day of the two exhibitions (...)

Join the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 26th July 2013 at 6pm for the opening of HERE&NOW13 - an exhibition of 11 Western Australian artists with disability.

Featured artists include Katrina Barber, Patrick Carter, Clive Collender, Aquinas Crowe, David Guhl, Tim Maley, Julian (...)

Carrie McGee from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present the annual Salek Minc Lecture for 2013 on Thursday 1 August 6pm at the UniClub Theatre Auditorium.

Carrie McGee and her colleagues at the MoMA have won international respect for their unique efforts to make the MoMA’s (...)

As part of the HERE&NOW13 exhibition program, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is hosting the 'Disability and the Arts' Symposium on 2nd and 3rd of August.

This two-day symposium brings together a range of Western Australian organisations to discuss the importance of enabling people (...)