What's On at UWA

The Friends of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery present the next theme in their Art History Lecture Series: Australian Landscape Then and Now. Presented by Carl Altmann, this new series will look at numerous different aspects of landscape paintings from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century (...)

Artist Penny Coss presents a new performance work in response to her installation featured in The Long Kiss Goodbye.

For Pendulum Acts, Coss will drag, shift and erase layers of her installation to reference her encounters in the landscape as a democratic space, where hierarchies shift (...)

Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra's Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by (...)

The Friends of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery invite you to join them on a visit to Robertson Park Artists Studios. Robertson Park is an independent, self-funded, non-profit studio collectively run by artists Graham Hay, Frances Dennis, Bethamy Linton, Sarah Jane Merchant, Christopher McClelland and Ca (...)

Bring your friends to LWAG’s next Art Party and join us in celebrating a new academic semester! Enjoy a free sundowner, art-making activities, live music, gallery tours, door prizes and more. Drinks / Music / Door Prizes / Art Activities / Tours Campus Partner: Student Guild

Take some time to slow down your day on this unique gallery tour. Similar to mindfulness exercises that focus on your breathing, in this tour we will settle our minds on the artwork. The session includes close observation of selected artworks from the current exhibitions, followed by an informal (...)

Due to popular demand, we have scheduled a second workshop with artist Michele Elliot.

Fabric and clothing hold memories. The weaver, the maker and the wearer all leave their imprint; worn out and much-loved clothes equally so. Join Michele Elliot in a contemplative textile workshop (...)

Fabric and clothing hold memories. The weaver, the maker and the wearer all leave their imprint; worn out and much-loved clothes equally so. Join Michele Elliot in a contemplative textile workshop focused on embroidery and cloth collage.

Michele Elliot is a visual artist, educator and (...)

Armed with a Maton Alver guitar that he bought a long time ago, Steve Chinna takes you on a trip with tales, songs and images into a time of living a future deferred, when national service beckoned, the Vietnam War loomed large, Bob Dylan betrayed his fans (yet again), and pop, folk and protest (...)

Death and mourning often lead to rituals that acknowledge and assist with loss and grief. Creativity through art practices that include visual art, dance and song, enrich and comprise ritual that brings empathic connectivity between people and communities, bringing solace and comfort, together with (...)

Join Campbell Gray, Director of The University of Queensland Art Museum, for the first event in LWAG's 30th Anniversary 'In Practice' series focusing on timely issues in professional practice the arts.

In 'Radical Curatorship', Gray will explore the complex social, financial and (...)

Join curator Brent Harrison and artists Nathan Beard, Janet Carter and Colin Smith for a talk and tour exploring the exhibition HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer, an exhibition that focuses on the practice of queer artists in Western Australia.

Featuring new work by eight contemporary (...)

We invite visitors to join us for a Friday Talk by Amelia Birch titled 'Intrepid Expatriates: The works of Agnes Goodsir and Romaine Brooks'.

In the first few decades of the twentieth century an artistic community of lesbian expatriates flourished in Paris, their numbers small but their (...)

Join Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lee Kinsella, as she shares insights about the artworks in the new exhibition (Un)ladylike Acts: Recent Acquisitions from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.

(Un)ladylike Acts features a selection of artwork that variously (...)

We invite visitors with vision impairment to join us for a tour of the exhibition HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer.

Exhibiting artists Nathan Beard and Colin Smith, and curator Brent Harrison will share insights into their artworks and the exhibition. A trained guide will also deliver (...)

Visitors are invited to join us for a Friday Talk by Dr Duc Dau; 'Same-sex handholding and the Song of Songs in the art of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)' Dr Duc Dau, an Honorary Research Fellow in English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, will explore Solomon’s (...)

Join us for this semester's student art party!

For this Culture Club, we'll be celebrating the arts and queer culture in recognition of the current exhibitions HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer and A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk.

Enjoy complimentary food and drinks (...)

Visual and sonic art overlap in this special evening premiering new works by UWA Conservatorium of Music students.

Using artworks in the exhibitions HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer, Drew Pettifer: A Sorrowful Act and (Un)ladylike Acts at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as inspiration, the (...)

Join Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray, Lecturer in Gender Studies at UWA, to contemplate Kate Just’s 'In my skin'.

‘Knitting in public turns the interiority of the domestic outward.’ (Bratich & Brush, 2011)

Feminist thinkers and artists have long contemplated the (...)

Thinking Queerly is a symposium examining the links between queer histories and their social contexts through the lens of art practices.

It features keynote presentations from Australian jurist, academic and former Justice of the High Court, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG and Dunja Rmandi&a (...)