Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at The University of Western Australia is a centre for exploring art and ideas across disciplines.

Gallery Hours: Tues–Sat 11am–4pm The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia presents an innovative program of exhibitions, featuring the University's extensive art collection, as well as new, contemporary art and touring shows. All exhibitions are supported by an engaging public program that includes artist talks, seminars, tours and opportunities to meet the artist. FREE ADMISSION to all exhibitions and events unless specified otherwise.

The Sculpt committee invites UWA students to a FREE evening of absurd fashion, food and activities celebrating the curre...
02/09/2026

The Sculpt committee invites UWA students to a FREE evening of absurd fashion, food and activities celebrating the current exhibitions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Who: All UWA Students
When: Wednesday 16 September 5-8pm
Where: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

FREE | Registration essential
https://events.humanitix.com/sculpt-soiree-not-quite-right

Refreshments provided (18+ drink responsibly)
Food (inspired by Deanna Hitti’s Mezze Exhibition)

Dress code: Wear something wrong! Think: a garment backwards or inside out or even as something it’s not intended to be (inspired by the Strange Sensation exhibition).

Activities: photobooth, exquisite co**se drawing and more!

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The Sculpt Committee provides UWA students with a year-long immersion in the workings of their campus gallery.

Visiting LWAG
Current exhibitions run until Saturday 19 September 2026, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-4pm. Entry is always free.

💜 In celebration of Wear It Purple Day, we’re highlighting the recent acquisition of Jack Ball’s ‘Magic marker 8’ for th...
28/08/2026

💜 In celebration of Wear It Purple Day, we’re highlighting the recent acquisition of Jack Ball’s ‘Magic marker 8’ for the UWA Art Collection.

Ball’s artistic practice critically engages with the politics and aesthetics of mess and collage as a framework for exploring trans and q***r photographic representation. Their distinctive approach to photography involves cutting, collaging, layering and re-photographing images to create sculptural forms and installations.

‘Magic marker 8’ features two printed images layered and held in place with hand-painted purple pins. The background image shows two entangled bodies behind a purple lattice, while the central image shows reams of ripped and curled paper referencing the complexity and materiality of q***r archives that Ball was researching at the time. The composite image shows slippages, overlaps and divergences between the experience of the body and its trace in the archives.

Wear it Purple Day is celebrated across Australia on the last Friday in August each year, with the aim of ensuring every LGBTQIA+SB young person knows they are seen, supported and never alone.

LGBTQIA+SB students at UWA can connect with for support, advice and activities.

Ball’s 2013 video ‘Reverberate’ is showing in Strange Sensation until Saturday 19 September.


Image credit: Jack Ball, Magic marker 8, 2023, Leah Jane Cohen Art Bequest, 2026

Care and conversation: a stitching workshop with Michele ElliotThursday 10th September11.00am-1.00pm (AWST)1.00pm-3.00pm...
27/08/2026

Care and conversation: a stitching workshop with Michele Elliot

Thursday 10th September
11.00am-1.00pm (AWST)
1.00pm-3.00pm (AEST)
(please note your time zone)

As part of Held: On care and collections, artist-curator Michele Elliot will facilitate an online stitching workshop using simple design and sewing techniques.

Michele will guide you through the making of a small artwork that relates to ideas of care, connection and memory. Please join her.

All levels of experience are welcome.
A zoom link will be provided the day prior to the event.

For more info and to register, visit:
https://events.humanitix.com/lwag2609


Image credit: Michele Elliot, mustang (detail), 2021, cotton thread, handkerchief, 27 x 27 cm

SCULPT Student Movie Night⏰ Wednesday 9 September📍 Lawrence Wilson Art GalleryGrab your $5 tickets for a screening of Th...
26/08/2026

SCULPT Student Movie Night

⏰ Wednesday 9 September
📍 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Grab your $5 tickets for a screening of The Menu (2022) in the Gallery, with complimentary pizza and snacks!

The Menu follows a young couple visiting an exclusive island restaurant where a revered chef serves a meticulously crafted menu with increasingly disturbing surprises. The tension-filled dark comedy blends satire and thriller elements, skewering elitism, pretension, and the commodification of art through the lens of haute cuisine.

What’s on the menu? Complimentary pizza, soft drink and snacks with your ticket purchase!

5:45pm – Pizza served
6:15pm – The Menu movie screening commences

The movie choice is inspired by the surrealist themes of the Strange Sensation exhibition and Deanna Hitti’s elaborate banquet installation in her solo exhibition Mezze.

Get your ticket now. Spots are limited!
https://events.humanitix.com/sculpt-movie-night-the-menu

It was great to welcome UWA Q***r Theory students to the gallery today! Director Theo Costantino and curator of the Crut...
24/08/2026

It was great to welcome UWA Q***r Theory students to the gallery today!

Director Theo Costantino and curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lee Kinsella, introduced our current exhibitions before PhD candidate Sam Mayne led a group activity.

Contact the gallery via [email protected] for group bookings and tours.

Mezze, Strange Sensation and Held are showing Tuesday – Saturday until 19 September. Entry is free.

FLOOR TALKS Sat 5 September 2-3pmLawrence Wilson Art GalleryHear artists Paul Uhlmann and Sarah Elson speak about their ...
20/08/2026

FLOOR TALKS

Sat 5 September 2-3pm
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Hear artists Paul Uhlmann and Sarah Elson speak about their work in Strange Sensation. This exhibition draws from the UWA Art Collection to explore disturbances in our sense of the familiar.

Paul Uhlmann is a Fremantle based artist who works across painting, drawing and artists’ books to create work which focuses on the forming and deforming image, in relation to place, process, impermanence, and embodiment. His work embraces a world view of immanence where all life folds into one living breathing substance. Our bodies are porous and part of the environment.

Sarah Elson is a Walyalup based artist whose work examines the nature of preciousness and the preciousness of nature. She works in nonferrous metals sourced from redundant currency, repurposed electrical cables and jewellery from failed relationships. Sarah’s practice involves growing and nurturing plants that become the subject of her work. She casts their decaying parts in metal to celebrate their resilience and creates armour-like forms to ally herself with nature.

Reserve your place now:
https://events.humanitix.com/lwag2608

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Strange Sensation runs until 19 September 2026, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-4pm. Entry is always free.


Image: Paul Uhlmann, Mirage, 2005, The University of Western Australia Art Collection, Gift of the artist, 2013, © the artist, photo: Robert Frith

PUBLIC TALKThurs 3 September 11am-12pmLawrence Wilson Art GalleryJoin us for a public talk on ‘Strike Camps: The legacy ...
19/08/2026

PUBLIC TALK

Thurs 3 September 11am-12pm
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Join us for a public talk on ‘Strike Camps: The legacy of John Wilson’ with family of John Wilson and members of the Strike Camps curatorium including descendants of the strikers who will speak about the legacy of the 1946 Pilbara Strike, life on the mining camps and the significance of the photographs on display in the exhibition.

Please RSVP now to secure your place:
https://events.humanitix.com/strike-camps-public-talk

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Strike Camps is presented at LWAG by Nomads Charitable and Educational Foundation, with support from Lotterywest, Spinifex Trust, the School of Design at the University of Western Australia and The Berndt Museum. John Wilson's work is exhibited with permission of his family.

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Visit the exhibition Tuesdays - Saturdays 11am - 4pm. Please note, the gallery will be closed from 21 September to 16 October, then the exhibition continues to 5 December.

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors are advised that this exhibition contains the names and images of people who have passed away.

Catch up on this great interview with RTR! The fabulous Maxxi May chatted with Deanna Hitti, Michele Elliot and Lee Kins...
19/08/2026

Catch up on this great interview with RTR!

The fabulous Maxxi May chatted with Deanna Hitti, Michele Elliot and Lee Kinsella about our new exhibitions Mezze, Strange Sensation, and Held: On care and Collections.

https://rtrfm.com.au/story/mezze-strange-sensation-held/

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Visit LWAG 11am - 4pm Tuesday - Saturday until 19 September. Entry is free.


Please join us for the launch of Strike camps: The photographs of John Wilson.Where: Lawrence Wilson Art GalleryWhen: 6-...
12/08/2026

Please join us for the launch of Strike camps: The photographs of John Wilson.

Where: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
When: 6-8pm Wednesday 2 September 2026

This exhibition brings together a collection of previously unseen photographs taken across Pilbara strike camps during the 1950s and 1960s.

Presented for the first time, these early colour images document a powerful history of Aboriginal autonomy, economic independence and political organisation at a time when Aboriginal people remained excluded from Australia's political system.

Presented at LWAG by Nomads Charitable and Educational Foundation, with support from Lotterywest, Spinifex Trust, the School of Design at the University of Western Australia and The Berndt Museum. John Wilson's work is exhibited with permission of his family.

Non-alcoholic beverages and refreshments provided. Please RSVP now to secure your place:
https://events.humanitix.com/exhibition-opening-strike-camps-the-photographs-of-john-wilson

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Exhibition runs from 3 September to 5 December 2026.

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors are advised that this exhibition contains the names and images of people who have passed away.

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is open Tuesdays - Saturdays 11am - 4pm. Entry is always free.


Image credit: Untitled photograph by John Wilson (c.1959-1960) (detail), courtesy of the John Wilson Estate.

We have a fantastic line up of presenters for our upcoming SCULPT X ALVA student networking night on Thursday 13 August....
09/08/2026

We have a fantastic line up of presenters for our upcoming SCULPT X ALVA student networking night on Thursday 13 August.

If you’re pursuing a career in the arts, this evening is a must. Gain valuable insights and tips from these exceptional arts industry professionals to help steer you towards success in the arts sector.

All students and early career arts workers welcome!

Hear from:

Paul Boyé - Writer and curator at Goolugatup Heathcote, and Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Makaela Rowe-Fox - Emerging interdisciplinary artist and writer working across photography, video art and performance.

Georgia Hayward - Walyalup-based artist, curator, and arts worker with cultural connections to the Mardigan people in Western Queensland.

Emma Buswell - West Australian based artist, curator and designer who has exhibited internationally and nationally.

⏰ Thursday 13 August – 5-8pm
📍 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

FREE refreshments & complimentary caricatures by the ALVA Society.

👉 Reserve your spot for this free event now:
https://events.humanitix.com/sculpt-x-alva-networking-night

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