We are pleased to invite you to the launch of our 2021 Season 1 program with the opening of three new exhibitions at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Please note: due to Covid-19 safety regulations, registration is essential and will be checked on arrival.

Olga Cironis: Dislocation

Olga Cironis works with familiar materials to make powerful sculptural forms that resonate with a sense of disenfranchised identity. Born to Greek parents in Czechoslovakia in 1963, she migrated to Sydney in 1971. The experience of migration and otherness, both her own sense of dislocation and that of those she encounters, permeates all her installations, objects, photographs and videos. Dislocation is a survey exhibition that amplifies recurring concerns about life, relationships, memory and empathy.

Presented in association with Perth Festival.

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Paper Cut

Paper Cut challenges conventional notions of works on paper as a secondary media and offers an alternative view on art history via a dynamic and eclectic survey of a century of paper-based practice by Australian women artists. Presented in two parts, Paper Cut features a wide range of works on paper from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art. It also includes a community residency space, encouraging dialogue between printed material being produced now and objects from the collection.

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Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined delves into the depths of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology’s object collection illuminating a diverse menagerie of animal representations from across Indigenous Australia. The exhibition showcases over 100 years of creation practices by Indigenous Australian peoples, for whom the creatures of the land, water and sky were, are, and forever will be, deeply ingrained in their culture and beliefs.

Presented by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.

OPENING NIGHT:FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY, 6 - 8PM LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY

Refreshments will be served | Registration essential

Enquiries: 08 6488 3707 or lwag@uwa.edu.au

View all related events to the exhibitions on uwa.edu.au/lwag

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Image: Olga Cironis, Echo, 2021, still from single-channel digital video with sound, duration 3:55 min, ed. 1/5, courtesy of the artist and Art Collective WA. This project has been made possible with the support of the Minderoo Foundation