What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Lee Kinsella has curated and managed exhibitions at Australian state and national public institutions, and has published writing on Australian art and artists. She has recently edited the monograph Miriam Stannage: Time Framed which examines Stannage’s 50 year practice.

Join Kinsella (...)

Oh no! A piece of art has mysteriously gone missing from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Gather clues from around the UWA campus and see if you can successfully identify the perpetrator of this terrible crime. Register and win a prize if you have solved the mystery.

Watch the (...)

Many generations of surveillance have passed since the introduction of CCTV, which now seems almost innocuous in comparison to newer technologies.

Dr David Glance, the Director of the Centre for Software Practice at UWA has been a keen commentator and observer of the interface between (...)

Writer and editor Peter Bibby was founding editor of Broome’s Magabala Books, when they first published Yorro Yorro by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic in 1993. He has recorded and published experiences of travelling to country with Mowaljarlai and with other senior Aboriginal people in the (...)

Join us at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Let’s Talk Shop with local WA textile designer, Pauline Franklyn, who will shed light on her practice.

Utilising various techniques as collage, nuno and resist, Pauline brings together fabric and fibre to produce beautiful, rather (...)

Join us at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Let’s Talk Shop with local WA textile designer, Pauline Franklyn, who will shed light on her practice.

Utilising various techniques such as collage, nuno and resist, Pauline brings together fabric and fibre to produce beautiful, painterly (...)

Artist Miriam Stannage was an innovator in film; acting in other’s films and creating her own.

In this event, Lee Kinsella, the curator of Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006-2016, will introduce several short films including Bill Hawthorn’s The Tunnel People (c.1975) and Llanarchymaeth (c.1 (...)

Rosalie Primary students have selected six diverse artworks - including favourites Guy Grey-Smith, Blackboy grove; Joy Hester, Girl in corner; and Siné MacPherson, Banksia flower colours - from the UWA Art Collection and Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for close (...)

This tour is an Audio Described tour of the exhibition Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 aimed for visitors with visual impairment.

A facilitator will describe selected works on display at the exhibition.

This event is part of the Access Program at LWAG presented in (...)

Join us for an engaging tour of Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 designed to connect participants living with dementia in a shared exploration of art through emerging personal insights, interpretations and memories.

The tour features works by renowned senior Western Australian artist (...)

UWA Chief Cultural Officer Professor Ted Snell is pleased to invite you to the opening of three new exhibitions:

CHAR SOO, A four-screen video production that captures a day in the life of an Iranian bazaar. To be opened by Dr Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western (...)

Hossein Valamanesh’s video installation, made in collaboration with his son Nassiem, simultaneously depicts all four directions of the main intersection, or ‘char soo’, of a grand bazaar in the city of Arak, Iran.

Surrounded by four massive projections, the viewer is placed in the (...)

Take a more contemplative approach to art when you join us for a gallery tour with a difference at Going Slow: The Art of Observation.

Much like a mindfulness exercise, where you focus on your breathing, in this case you allow your mind to settle on contemporary works of art, followed by (...)

At UWA, during October 20 - 29, explore your creativity by taking part in a world-wide drawing festival.

A range of different activities are available including: drawing and painting in immersive 3D virtual reality using Google’s cutting-edge Tilt Brush technology.

Draw and (...)