What's On at UWA

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 (...)

The UWA Student Guild has its 100th birthday this year. Prosh Days past, political militancy, protest marches, the campaign for female equality... it’s been quite a ride.

Among many other centenary events, we invite you to an exhibition called The Guild Museum; curated by 2011 Guild (...)

The Blush of the World: Bonnard’s Nudes and the Disembodied Look

This lecture sets out to provide a framework within which one might begin to look at Bonnard’s canvasses depicting his wife, Marthe, in the rituals of washing and bathing. It suggests that the most common way of (...)

A public lecture and performance by Julianne Baird.

By the early eighteenth century Venice’s once considerable economic power had ebbed to a point where culture, rather than trade or manufacture, was her most characteristic field of activity. She drew visitors in huge numbers from all (...)

Katherine Wilkinson, Curator of HERE&NOW13, will be accompanied by artists in a discussion-oriented tour of the exhibition.

HERE&NOW13, presented as a part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of emerging Western Australian Artists, will for the first time (...)

Linda Barwick from the University of Sydney will present a special guest lecture introducing the Western Arnhem Land Song Project Collection on 21 August at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Linda Barwick will present work undertaken by her research team on the Western Arnhem Land Song (...)

The Department of Culture and the Arts Emerging Curator Program supports the skills development of new curators of contemporary visual arts and craft. DCA's Visual Art, Craft and Writing Project Officer Daevid Anderson and HERE&NOW13 Curator Katherine Wilkinson will discuss this rewarding (...)

With a thriving community of composers and celebrated staff mentoring their progress, this evening promises to be quite special. In this concert, new compositions for chamber ensemble and voice will be performed as finalists compete in the annual Dorothy Ransom prize in Composition. This event (...)