What's On at UWA

With Associate Professor Clarissa Ball, Discipline Chair, History of Art, UWA School of Design, Director, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.

The recent removal of Confederate statues in the United States has resulted in extraordinary acts of violence, heightened racial tensions and death (...)

Slow your day down by joining us for a different kind of art gallery tour. Much like a mindfulness exercise, where you focus on your breathing, in this tour you allow your mind to settle on the artwork on display.

The 45-minute session involves close looking of selected pieces of (...)

Join us for an engaging tour of the exhibition Scratching the Surface: A selection of works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. The tour is designed to connect participants living with dementia in a shared exploration of art through personal insights, emerging interpretations and memories (...)

Join us for an engaging tour of the exhibition Scratching the Surface: A selection of works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. The tour is designed to connect participants living with dementia in a shared exploration of art through personal insights, emerging interpretations and memories (...)

Join us for the opening of u to the opening of two new exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery: BATAVIA: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS and BEING TIWI.

FREE to attend. RSVP via the link.

BATAVIA: Following new discoveries by researchers from the University of Western (...)

When the Dutch East India vessel Batavia was wrecked on Morning Reef in the Abrolhos Islands in June 1629, none of the more than 300 people on board could have imagined the enduring historical impact of this maritime disaster and its bloody aftermath. Those events have inspired a multitude of books (...)

Choices in mathematics are often made for aesthetic reasons: a degree of freedom is added here to preserve symmetry; a partial derivative is employed there because it establishes harmony and so on. The use of aesthetic considerations in mathematics hides a deep mystery. Mathematicians make progress (...)

Research has shown the many benefits of drawing as a life skill for children and adults alike. During October, explore your creativity by taking part in a worldwide drawing festival – featuring workshops, talks, VR and drawing activities.

Events will include: Drawing workshops and (...)

Come on an artist educator-led expedition! Have you ever imagined what an artwork might taste like? What it might say if it could speak? How would it move if it came to life? Explore the exhibition Being Tiwi with MCA Artist Educator Ella Condon from Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.< (...)

Educators and primary and secondary teachers are invited to join a teacher professional development session for Being Tiwi.

Discover new ways to inspire your students to engage with contemporary art, with a hands-on session lead by Lead Artist Educator Ella Condon from Sydney’s Museum (...)

Come to LWAG’s Art Party to round up and celebrate the year! Bring your friends and meet new ones.

Enjoy a free sundowner. Experiment with art activities. Listen to live music, you may win a door prize too! Students are particularly welcome.

This is an opportunity for (...)

Join us for a free, special one-night-only screening of MYSTERIOUS MASTERPIECE: Cold Case Torrentius, a documentary film by Maarten de Kroon in cooperation with Jeanne van der Horst.

The film investigates the incredible case of the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Torrentius and (...)

Not only did the early Renaissance painters seek to improve their methods of spatial illusionism, they believed that sophisticated knowledge of geometry was integral. Leon Battista Alberti (1435) believed the first requirement of a painter was to know geometry, whereas Piero Della Francesca went to (...)

Using archival images, Madeleine Clear, co-founder of Tiwi Design, will reminisce about the early years of Tiwi Design, where she worked closely with artists in the late 1960s. From humble beginnings as a printmaking workshop, it went on to gain national and international recognition as one of the (...)

Join us as Associate Professor Jacqueline Van Gent examines and reflects on Julie Dowling’s artwork, The Seven Deadly Sins, which is currently on show in the exhbition Country & Colony. Comprised of a series of small canvases this work features images of exploitation of the environment (...)

HOME TOWN brings together internationally-renowned Australian artists and curators in this investigative symposium, exploring the relationship between artists and communities in the realisation of ambitious site-specific artworks.

It considers existing international and local projects: (...)

Free with amazing entertainment from Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse, original music from the UWA School of Music, food trucks and plenty of room to spread your picnic blanket. Join us Saturday 4 November for a celebration and a show of community commitment to inclusion.

From 3pm: Everyone (...)

For adults with hearing loss or deafness

Experience the artwork at LWAG in Australian Sign Language. Join us for a free tour in Auslan of the current exhibitions on display guided by a gallery staff member and interpreter from Auslan Stage Left.

The Tiwi Design art centre (...)

Join us to hear how Laurie Fossier Mills’ fascination with glass has been an exciting personal journey of discovery, exploring new concepts and glassblowing techniques.

Laurie’s development as an artist and director of Beach Gecko Glass has come from belonging to a glass community (...)

Join us for a touch and verbal descriptive tour of the current exhibitions. A trained guide delivers descriptions of the visual elements of artworks exhibited, along with tactile opportunities using mixed media and 3D printed translations.

Tours are free to attend and open to companions (...)