What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Join curators Kelly Rowe and Eve Chaloupka for an exhibition floor talk on Friday 30 August 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The ‘gossip songs’ of Western Arnhem Land are key examples of complex combinations of moral instruction and entertainment and can act as social (...)

Join us for the upcoming CURATINGforum event on Wednesday 4 September 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

In this forum, panellists Katherine Wilkinson (curator for HERE&NOW13) and Kate Campbell-Pope (artist and mentor) will be joined by visiting speaker Amanda Cachia for an (...)

Join Gemma Weston, the new Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at UWA, at 1pm on Friday September 13, for a tour that explores the themes, artists and artworks featured in the current exhibition Abstracting the Collection.

Abstracting the Collection explores a variety of (...)

The Berndt Museum presents a free screening of the film Ten Canoes on Wednesday 25 September 2013, 6:30pm at the Robert Street Lecture Theatre.

Set in and around the Arafura Wetlands of Central Arnhem Land in a time before Western contact, Ten Canoes is the tale of young Dayindi (James (...)

Winthrop Professor Ted Snell, AM CitWA, Director of the Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia invites you to attend the opening of three exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 11 October 2013. Doors open: 5pm.

STAN HOPEWELL: GOD IS LOVE // BLISS // (...)

Art After Death

A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death.

Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource.

An artist� (...)

The Cultural Precinct is pleased to invite you to this free public lecture by Katrina Strickland, as she discusses her new book Affairs of the Art: Love, loss and power in the art world on Monday 14 October 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Affairs of the Art explores the role (...)

Join curator Ted Snell on Friday 18 October 2013, 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for a fascinating talk on the exhibition Stan Hopewell: God is Love.

Artist Stan Hopewell’s creative work became a means of expressing his love for his seriously ill wife and his certainty in the (...)

Join us for a special talk by visiting speaker Dr Diana Young on October 23, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Ernabella Arts, situated on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the Western Desert, is the oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre in Australia (...)

Jennifer Post, an ethnomusicologist, is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow working with the John Blacking Collection at the Callaway Centre, UWA.

In this talk, Jennifer will explore the way saved sounds, objects and images hold stories and conjure memories of music-making (...)

Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking (...)

The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.

Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA (...)

The Arab Spring has both changed and charged some of the region’s thorniest problems – from the rise of political Islam to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israel-Palestine conflict to rivalries between key regional powers. Exploring the sources of conflict in the Middle East and their various (...)