What's On at UWA

Join exhibition curator and director of the UWA Cultural Precinct, Winthrop Professor Ted Snell as he explores the ideas and themes presented as panoramas.

In this talk, Ted discusses his choice of works for the exhibition 'p a n o r a m a' on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (...)

Winthrop Professor Ted Snell, Director of the UWA Cultural Precinct, invites you to the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre, UWA for the opening of three new exhibitions - HERE&NOW14, Glitter: Pat Larter vs Lola Ryan and Wildflower Dreaming.

To attend, RSVP via email ([email protected]) or (...)

Join in the conversation with exhibition curator Barbara Bynder as she discusses the exhibition Wildflower Dreaming: Shirley Corunna and the Coolbaroo League 1952-1962.

The exhibition presents a snapshot of Shirley’s personal journey, following a move from her home in Three Springs (...)

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will open late for a very special live performance with renowned clarinettist Ashley Smith and the cream of Western Australia’s young musicians. They will present 20th century works for flute, clarinet, saxophone and piano (Debussy, Jolivet, Poulenc, Satie) (...)

Join exhibition curator Emma Mahanay Bitmead, artist and former academic John Teschendorff and leading writer and curator of Australian contemporary crafts and design, Grace Cochrane AM, as they discuss the nature of contemporary ceramics practice in Western Australia within a national and an (...)

Join writer and academic Anna Haebich, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Design and Art, Curtin University as she discusses the Coolbaroo League’s role in creating a sense of community among the Aboriginal groups living in Perth from the late 1940s to (...)

UWA String and Voice Students come together to perform chamber works from the baroque period. Exhibitions on view include Glitter, works by Pat Larter and Lola Ryan; HERE&NOW14, contemporary ceramic art from Western Australian artists.

HERE&NOW14, a conversation between long-term creative collaborative partners Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer and more recent collaborative partners Sandra Black and Andrew Nicholls.

Prominent practitioners in their own right, these artists have been working in creative (...)

Award winning researcher and writer Stephen Kinnane who co-wrote and produced The Coolbaroo Club (1996), an ABC TV documentary, will introduce the film and take questions following the screening.

This documentary is a portrait of the Coolbaroo Club, an Aboriginal-run dance club which (...)

Join Curator Gemma Weston as she guides us through the stunning works on display from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art in the exhibition Glitter: Pat Larter vs Lola Ryan.

This event is part of the public program accompanying the exhibition Glitter which is featured at the (...)

Join us for a discussion between Associate Professor Andrew Rate from the School of Earth and Environment and ceramic artists Andrea Vinkovic and Stephanie Hammill.

The use of clay as both artistic medium and source of scientific enquiry will form the basis of this discussion. Andrew (...)

The author of numerous books and articles, Stephen Kinnane, a Marda Marda from Mirrowoong country in the East Kimberley has been working as a researcher and writer for over 20 years on community cultural heritage and development projects across the spectrum of Aboriginal history, sustainability (...)

St George's College will throw open its doors for everyone to visit, explore and discover what life is like in the 'castle'! In conjunction with Open Gardens Australia the day will feature building and garden tours, a variety of musical performances, extensive art exhibition (including works by (...)

Often translated from the Latin as ‘remember you must die’ or ‘remember your mortality’, memento mori serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death. The term ‘memento mori’ first entered English in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) and was immediately accepted (...)

Join us for the opening of two exhibitions: Memento Mori, curated by Ted Snell and Self Portrait as Shared Dream, curated by Gemma Weston.

Memento Mori are artworks that prompt us to ponder the emptiness and transience of earthly pleasures and re-assess our moral progress as we move (...)

THE UNDISCOVERED symposium is the first of a proposed series of symposia that will emerge over the next three years, presented by Artsource and The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct.

Speakers include: Victorie Laurie, Ian McLean, Trevor Vickers, Stuart Elliot, Olga (...)

Vladimir Belogolovsky’s talk, “Curating Architecture” is a part of his 2014 lecture tour across universities in Asia and Australia. The lecture is a work in progress. It presents and analyzes some of the most critical and transformative events and tendencies in the culture of curating (...)

Join writer and academic Dr Shevaun Cooley as she presents ‘You must change your life’, a discussion of the intersection of art and poetry, and what happens when those works carry with them the whiff of death. The lecture will include an exploration of mortality and the ephemeral in the Memento (...)

Be inspired by a discussion about art and music and the power of music to engage with the big questions of life and death. New compositions by School of Music students Mark Holdsworth, Drew Woolley, James Bradbury and Michael Grebla have been commissioned to complement the exhibition Memento Mori.

Join Dr Susanne Meurer as she presents Mimesis and Memory in Wax Works in which she will discuss the recent revival of wax sculpture as an artistic medium and subject of critical study.

FREE event. RSVP required. http://lwag1411.eventbrite.com/?aff=uwacal

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