What's On at UWA

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.

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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.

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.

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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

As Stevie Wonder once said, “We need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability”.

Join Caine Chennatt, access initiatives advocate at LWAG for a conversation with access advocates from DADAA and Alzheimer's Australia discussing ideas, suggestions (...)

The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art includes a range of printed and handdrawn posters exploring themes such as feminism, the environment and community. Under the guidance of collection curator Gemma Weston, students from Rosalie Primary School have worked to create their own posters that (...)

In this one-off conversation, join artist Kelly Doley and Gemma Weston, Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, as they discuss feminism, learning, sharing, performance as a research tool, contradictions, archives, and other ideas that inform Doley’s practice.

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We launch the 2018 exhibitions program with the opening of three new exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. - Zadok Ben-David: Human Nature, presented as part of the Perth Festival and supported by the Visual Arts Program Partner Wesfarmers Arts, In Light of Shadows, presented by the (...)

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

Helen Britton: Interstices + Works of Art from Warbuton + The Likeness Helen Britton: Interstices is a 25-year survey of the work of renowned jeweller Helen Britton, including (...)

Join Helen Britton as she leads you through her magical world of jewellery and sculptural installations. Hear how her memories, ‘shaped by encounters from the past and present’ have been reimagined into stunning brooches, neckpieces and other objects crafted from metals, glass, precious stones (...)

Attend a tour of The Likeness and participate in a close reading analysis of selected portraits with visual arts educator Erin Knight. Free event.

Discover more about contemporary art from the Western Desert community of Warburton in this walking tour with exhibition curator and head of the Berndt Museum, Dr Vanessa Russ. Free event.

Join us for an engaging tour of our current exhibitions designed to connect participants living with dementia in a shared exploration of art through personal insights, emerging interpretations and memories.

The tour features a 25-year survey of the work of renowned jeweller Helen Britton (...)

Come to LWAG’s first Art Party for 2017! Bring your friends and meet new ones. This is an opportunity for newcomers as well as regular visitors to explore the gallery and tour the new exhibitions in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Enjoy a free sundowner, listen to live music, try (...)

The nature of jewellery training, practice, exhibition and professional development means that strong international networks underpin successful national practices.

But what are the current training and exhibition opportunities, the critical forums, and what is the marketplace? Join this (...)

Dr Leanne McRae is the Senior Researcher for the Popular Culture Collective; a community of film makers, musicians, web builders, designers, writers, researchers and teachers who wish to create thinking – and thoughtful – popular culture.

Join her as she discusses the relationships (...)

Inspired daily by the beauty of her local bushland, Perth jeweller Donna Gahan has a strong interest in the effect of architecture on the human psyche, and the relationship between the natural and built environment.

Another recurring theme in her work is the many layers of our emotions (...)

Join us for the Audio Described Tour of Helen Britton: Interstices. Audio Description enhances visual art for people who are blind or vision impaired.

A trained Audio Describer delivers a verbal description of the visual elements. This tour will also include various tactile 3D printed (...)