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Displaying from Saturday, July 30, 2016
 July 2016
Saturday 30
13:00 - GUIDED TOUR - Discussion and Tour - Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 : Join leading academic and curator of Australian photographic history Professor Helen Ennis, with curator Lee Kinsella in a discussion and tour of the exhibition Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016. Website | More Information
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 (...)

 August 2016
Saturday 06
15:00 - EVENT - Curator's Talk and Tour - Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 : Join curator Lee Kinsella as she discusses her research and the exhibition of Stannage’s most recent work. Website | More Information
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 (...)
Sunday 14
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Open Day: Hypothetical Art Heist 2016 Website | More Information
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 (...)
Friday 19
13:00 - TALK - Friday Talk: Surveillance and Privacy Website | More Information
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 (...)
Saturday 27
15:00 - EVENT - Mowaljarlai Vision and Voice: Storytelling and Keeping of Stories Website | More Information
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 (...)
Wednesday 31
13:00 - EVENT - Let's Talk Shop with Pauline Franklyn Website | More Information
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 (...)

13:00 - EVENT - Let's Talk Shop with Pauline Franklyn : Join us at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Let’s Talk Shop with local WA textile designer, Pauline Franklyn Website | More Information
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 (...)

 September 2016
Thursday 01
18:00 - EVENT - Artists in Films and Artists' Films : This event forms part of the public program accompanying the exhibition Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006-2016 taking place at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Website | More Information
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 (...)
Friday 09
13:00 - EVENT - UWA Research Week Event: Exploring Art with Rosalie Primary School and LWAG Website | More Information


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 (...)
Saturday 17
14:30 - EVENT - Audio Described Tour of Exhibition | Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 More Information
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 (...)
Saturday 24
11:30 - EVENT - Art and Dementia Website | More Information
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 (...)

 October 2016
Friday 07
18:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Exhibition Opening + Season 4 Program Launch Website | More Information
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 (...)
Saturday 08
14:00 - TALK - Char Soo: Artists In Conversation Website | More Information
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 (...)
Wednesday 12
12:00 - EVENT - Going Slow : 2016 Mental Health Week Event Website | More Information
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 (...)
Thursday 20
11:30 - EVENT - The Big Draw Festival at UWA Website | More Information
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 (...)
Tuesday 25
17:30 - EVENT - Culture Club II Website | More Information
Culture Club is our semi-regular art party at LWAG for UWA students.

Enjoy a free sundowner, make your own art and join an exclusive tour of the gallery’s current exhibitions of contemporary art.

Presented in partnership with the Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

 November 2016
Saturday 05
13:00 - EVENT - Art Cargo Website | More Information
Artsource and UWA Cultural Precinct present Art Cargo - a new symposium examining trends in visual arts here in WA and how travelling and the trading of art and ideas influence local practice. It follows where The Undiscovered: A National Focus on Western Australian Art left off in 2014.

Thursday 10
18:00 - TALK - Pearl Shell Website | More Information
For over 20,000 years people have been harvesting the large and lustrous shell of the Pinctada maxima pearl oyster from along WA’s northern shores.

Broome-based anthropologist and curator Sarah Yu’s research has contributed to a wider understanding of the role of Aboriginal and Asian (...)
Saturday 19
13:00 - EVENT - Family Day: Mapping and Drawing Website | More Information
What is it possible to map? Perhaps your own home, your family’s garden, or your local park? Maybe your own town, country or even the sky?

Drop in and join local artist Sharyn Egan to explore your imagination, experiment with map- making skills and create your own maps. All materials (...)

 December 2016
Friday 02
13:00 - TALK - Friday Talk: Participatory Mapping with Professor Petra Tschakert Website | More Information
In extended field work in West Africa and more recent research in India and Nepal, Professor Petra Tschakert has employed a variety of conceptual mapping approaches that promote critical engagement with marginalised rural communities and open up alternative routes for “doing” geography.



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