What's On at UWA

Join Berndt Museum Associate Director, Professor Sandy Toussaint, Associate Registrar Kelly Rowe and Archivist Eve Chaloupka as they discuss the preparation of the works in the current exhibition Yirrkala Drawings at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

An astonishing collection of crayon (...)

Curators, critics and academics have various approaches to framing exhibitions of Aboriginal art and material culture, their review and critique.

Join Dr Vanessa Russ and Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Curator, Content Development New Museum Project, Western Australian Museum as they discuss (...)

Culture Club is an inspired evening at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery amongst the incredible Yirrkala Drawings exhibition from the Berndt Museum.

Featuring live cinema portraits by Chris Lawrence, music, delicious refreshments, art making and door prizes, Culture Club is a chance to (...)

The University of Western Australia Berndt Museum holds a number of important collections including a significant collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material. It includes donated and acquired paintings, artefacts, photographs, archives, and audio-visual records.

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Inspired by the Yirrkala drawings, young artists can tell their own stories through art in pencil or crayon with local artist Sharyn Egan.

Ages 5 - 7 years: Wednesday 8 April

Cost : $10 each attendee - payable on the day Attend: Registration essential

Inspired by the Yirrkala drawings, young artists can tell their own stories through art in pencil or crayon with local artist Sharyn Egan.

Ages 8 - 10 years: Thursday 9 April

Cost: $10 each attendee - payable on the day Attend: Registration essential

Professor Ted Snell, Director of the UWA Cultural Precinct invites you to the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery within the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre for the opening of the exhibition HERE&NOW15 (Curated by Andrew Purvis) and Object Lessons I: Painting (Curated by Gemma Weston). Please RSVP by (...)

Spend some time in HERE&NOW15 exhibition and join us for a hands on experience with the creative world of virtual reality.

This presentation is an introduction to the thousands of 3D artworks and animated films created in virtual worlds through UWA programs.

UWA Honorary (...)

Spend some time in HERE&NOW15 exhibition and join us for a hands on experience with the creative world of virtual reality.

This presentation is an introduction to the thousands of 3D artworks and animated films created in virtual worlds through UWA programs.

UWA Honorary (...)

Spend some time in HERE&NOW15 exhibition and join us for a hands on experience with the creative world of virtual reality.

This presentation is an introduction to the thousands of 3D artworks and animated films created in virtual worlds through UWA programs.

UWA Honorary (...)

Spend some time in HERE&NOW15 exhibition and join us for a hands on experience with the creative world of virtual reality.

This presentation is an introduction to the thousands of 3D artworks and animated films created in virtual worlds through UWA programs.

UWA Honorary (...)

Below the Wind, Sea Nomads of Indonesia is a film that opens our eyes to the struggle of the Indonesian sea gypsies to continue their traditional fishing and customs in Australian waters.Their interaction with Yolngu people is highlighted in the exhibition Yirrkala Drawings: Works on Paper, Barks (...)

The UWA School of Music Guitar Ensemble is the premier guitar group in Western Australia, receiving the highest awards at the 2014 WA Classical Guitar Festival.

This special concert, performed within the beautiful acoustics of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to accompany the HERE&NOW1 (...)

The CCWA is founded upon a significant gift to the University of Western Australia by Sir James and Lady Cruthers in 2007. With works from the 1890s to the present, it is presented in exhibitions in the Lady Sheila Cruthers Gallery within the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. In 2015, LWAG will present (...)

The curatorial provocation Andrew Purvis was given for this exhibition was to respond to the 1979 essay by Rosalind Krauss titled Sculpture in the Expanded Field. In her seminal piece of writing, Krauss identified then current trends in sculptural practice and suggested that sculpture had moved (...)

Presented by the WA Medical Students Society at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, this event promises to give a fascinating insight into final year medical students clinical elective experience. Winners of the exhibition and seminar presentations will be chosen on the night. FREE EVENT. Registration (...)

Since the earliest pastoral stations were established around the country, Indigenous people have been crucial to the working life of the postoral industry in Australia.

Associate Professor Darren Jorgenson of ALVA will look at art made by Indigenous artists on stations, discussing the (...)

Inspired by the HERE&NOW15 exhibition, Professor Bill Taylor, Professor Michael Levine and Philip Goldswain will come together to discuss their shared interest in art, architecture and urban spaces.

Using philosophical parameters these three speakers will offer a range of (...)

Presented by the Berndt Museum, WARMUN THEN AND NOW features artwork by renowned Indigenous artists whose homelands lie in Gija country, located in the Kimberley region of north-east WA.

This exhibition presents a distinctive series of paintings by 1980s artists such as Queenie McKenzie (...)

Attend the launch of WARMUN THEN AND NOW at 3pm then enjoy afternoon tea and stay to listen to Professor Sandy Toussaint of the Berndt Museum in discussion with representatives of the Warmun Art Centre.

The exhibition includes prized works from renowned Gija artists dating from the (...)