Student Opportunities
Get involved in your campus gallery and gain hands-on, professional experience in a range of different positions.
Sculpt Student Committee
Applications are OPEN NOW for the 2025 Sculpt committee!
You can access the application form here.
Sculpt provides UWA students with a year-long engagement opportunity, immersing them in the workings of their campus gallery. Meeting weekly on Tuesdays, the committee collaborates to curate a series of events and projects in partnership with the LWAG team. Members contribute insights to help enhance the Gallery’s connection with UWA students and foster an inclusive, accessible, and meaningful environment for students.
For more information, see the 2025 Sculpt Committee Info Pack.
Application
Applications Due: Monday 3 March, 11:59pm
Applicants Notified: by Wednesday 5 March, 2025
First Committee Meeting: Tuesday 11 March, 2025
For more information on the Sculpt Committee, you can access the Info pack.
If you have any further questions, please contact LWAG’s Engagement Officer, Amy Reid, on [email protected]
UWA Micro-credentials
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery runs micro-credential professional development training programs for UWA students. They offer a unique opportunity to gain both behind-the-scenes insights into the workings of an art museum and research of work of your choice as part of a UWA accredited badge. All future Micro-credentials will be posted on this website
Past projects
Blaze Micro-Credential
In the latest iteration, with guidance from Lee Kinsella (Curator – Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art), students researched artworks from the exhibitionBLAZE: people made known. Their research culminated in extended label texts (some of which are included in the CCWA online database) and a group video.
Questions? Please contact Student Engagement Officer, Amy Reid, via [email protected]
UWA STUDENT CALLOUT / UWA Accredited Badge
Students are invited to partake in professional development training by research an artwork on display in the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery exhibition currently on display: Stuffed, Bolstered and Upholstered.
To find out more please download the information flyer here.
Art Writing Prize
After a 5-year hiatus the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Art Writing Prize is back!
The Art Writing Prize is free to enter and open to all UWA students. It is intended to encourage creative and scholarly responses by emerging writers to exhibitions and art exhibited at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, including works from the UWA Art Collection, the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art and the Berndt Museum.
Past winners of the Art Writing Prize can be here in our Archive.
Submissions should be a scholarly response (maximum 1500 words) to an artwork or exhibition which has been on display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2024.
The winner will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize.
The runner up will receive a yearlong subscription to Westerly Magazine.
The top 3 entries will be published on the LWAG website.
Submissions are DUE Tuesday, 24 September, 5pm AWST
For more information or to apply please download the application form.
Questions? Please contact Engagement Officer, Amy Reid, via [email protected]
