What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Join us to hear different perspectives on issues of concern to the LGBTQI+ community in a series of presentations followed by a panel discussion. Chaired by Liberty Cramer, Chair of UWA’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee. Presenters include: · Anna Kimpton, Head of UWA Pride Department in the (...)

Visitors are invited to join anthropologist Dennis Gray as he introduces the Dennis Gray Collection at the Berndt Museum and discusses his current work on it. The Dennis Gray Collection provides a story of the 'Carnarvon Reserve Mob': the people, their social interactions, residential patterns (...)

Visitors are invited to join anthropologist Dennis Gray as he introduces the Dennis Gray Collection at the Berndt Museum and discusses his current work on it.

The Dennis Gray Collection provides a story of the 'Carnarvon Reserve Mob': the people, their social interactions, residential (...)

From the early 1950s until the early 1970s, the Australian guitar-making company Maton manufactured the Alver, a budget line plywood guitar aimed at students and beginners. From November 1964 until December 1972, the National Service Scheme, in its then latest incarnation, operated in Australia. Ar (...)

Join Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lee Kinsella, as she shares insights about the artworks in Paper Cut .

Paper Cut 27 February - 5 June 2021

Works on paper have often been considered secondary to media such as sculpture or painting, thought of as visual (...)

Join us for this workshop for senior school teachers designed for our current exhibition Paper Cut.

Introduced by Curator of Academic and Public Programs, Dr Janice Lally, we will be joined by Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lee Kinsella, who will share insights about (...)

Join recent UWA students and artists Amy Neville and Isabella Rossaro for a talk exploring their work and participation in the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Neville, the curator of Students in Residence, will discuss the ideas behind the exhibition and the process bringing it together (...)

Join artist Jude Adams for a tour of the exhibition Paper Cut as she discusses her own work and others’ including that of fellow South Australian based artist, Ann Newmarch.

Jude Adams has a decades-spanning career in the visual arts covering a range of practices and disciplines. The (...)

Join us for an afternoon of talks and panel discussions addressing issues connected to feminism today from a range of perspectives and experiences.

The symposium will feature a keynote talks by artist Jude Adams.

Co-organised by the Asian Art Museum and Lawrence Wilson Art (...)

Join recent UWA students and artists Debbie Gilchrist and Julie Robyn Ziegenhardt for a talk exploring their work and participation in the Paper Cut: Students in Residence space. Julie Robyn Ziegenhardt explores her evolving understanding of the world around her through the reimagining of objects (...)

Abstraction did not just begin with Kandinsky or Picasso. Elements of abstraction can be found in all Art, but there were events and ideas in the Modernist era which caused artists to develop these elements. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The major thinkers of the time were Darwin (...)

Take a break from your day and unwind at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery during one of our new Art Breaks!

Let your creativity loose and have a play with a range of arts and crafts materials, wander through the current exhibitions, page through a wide variety of art books on one of our comfy (...)