What's On at UWA

Join us for the opening of our first exhibition for 2016, Bharti Kher: In Her Own Language, presented as part of the Perth International Arts Festival.

The exhibition will be opened by author, novelist and social commentator Jane Caro in the presence of the artist.

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Discover more about the art of Bharti Kher, whose elegant yet diverse work stems from the pulse of her New Delhi studio, as exhibition curator Margaret Moore takes you on an exclusive tour of Bharti Kher: In Her Own Language at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

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Join an audio described tour of Bharti Kher: In Her Own Language, for visitors who are blind or sight-impaired.

This Audio Described tour is part of the Access Program at LWAG, made possible via a partnership with DADAA's AccessAllArts program. All headsets and supporting material will (...)

Explore the fascinating connections between diverse objects and their cultures of origin, including Aboriginal Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Nepal.

In this one-off tour, the curators behind Interwoven will guide you through the exhibition and discuss the (...)

Exclusively for UWA students, Culture Club is our semi-regular art party at LWAG. Get to know your university art gallery and enjoy free refreshments, music and a chance to get a close look at internationally acclaimed artist Bharti Kher’s first Australian exhibition.

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Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

Complementing the themes in the exhibition Bharti Kher: In Her Own Language, Sana Bharadwaj, PhD Candidate in Linguistics who was herself born in the Indian State of Maharashtra, will reflect on how language, culture and identity interact in the sociolinguistics of the Indian diaspora in Australia.< (...)

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

Join us for a unique tour experience at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's current exhibition.

When you consider that on average, a visitor at an art gallery spends mere seconds (...)

The Berndt Museum, UWA Cultural Precinct and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to the opening of the exhibition 'MOWALJARLAI VISION AND VOICE, Legacy of a Bush Professor', curated by Eve Chaloupka.

The exhibition will be be opened by Dr Vanessa Russ, the new Associate Director (...)

The UWA Cultural Precinct and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to the opening of

HERE&NOW16/GenYM Curated by Hamida Novakovich.

Presenting nine contemporary artists whose work is tied together by their diverse experiences of growing up Muslim in Australia.
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Respected educationalist Erin Knight will introduce and expand on the themes in this exhibition that offer a firsthand look at being young and Muslim in modern Australia.

This event will include a discussion of practical links for art teachers to the new K-10 Western Australian (...)

Aboriginal director Wayne Barker takes the viewer on a cultural exploration through three regions of the Kimberley, the coast, the rivers and tablelands, and the desert. Key storytellers share histories and messages of identity.

Against a majestic rock gallery of Wandjina images, David (...)

Art and literature are spaces in which both the Muslim minorities and the majority communities engage in exclusion and inclusion at various levels, individually, as communities, and through government funded programs and publications.

Professor Samina Yasmeen, Director of the Centre for (...)

An 'emerging curator' confronts many situations. Join local curators Gemma Weston, Dr Laetitia Wilson, Eve Chaloupka and Erin Coates, whose own experiences reveal some of the diverse challenges and interpretations of the role and responsibilities of a “curator” in the current WA scene.

The WA Medical Students Society (WAMSS) elective photographic exhibition captures the art of medicine and gives insight into medicine in different parts of the developing and developed world.

It highlights the global health issues that we all face ahead of us in the future. Learn the (...)

Join us for the launch of the UWA Cultural Precinct’s 2016 WINTERarts season, with a short guest performance from the Winthrop Singers, directed by Nicholas Bannan.

The Winthrop Singers are choir in residence at the Chapel of St George’s College, where they have sung the service of (...)

Leave your child in a safe and friendly environment and let the artist inside come out to play. They will explore abstraction using colour, shapes and forms in an art workshop led by local artist Fiona Willis.

A separate workshop for Ages 8 - 10, is available at 1:30pm. Visit: http://lwag (...)

Leave your child in a safe and friendly environment and let the artist inside come out to play. They will explore abstraction using colour, shapes and forms in an art workshop led by local artist Fiona Willis.

A separate workshop for Ages 5 - 7, is available at 11:00am. Visit: http://lwag (...)

Join us for the exhibition opening of Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 on Friday 29 July 2016, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

This exhibition curated by Lee Kinsella features recent and previously unexhibited work by senior contemporary Australian artist Miriam Stannage,

This new exhibition showcases Miriam Stannage’s characteristically wry observations of life, and testifies to her ongoing experimentation and innovation across a range of media. The artist utilises everyday objects to offer commentary on fame, and the fragile and transitory nature of our time on (...)