Artists in Conversation: Anne Ferran, Deanna Hitti and Michele Elliot

Join us for a stimulating afternoon of discussions with artists featured in LWAG’s latest exhibitions.

1:00 -1:30pm: Strange Sensation artist Anne Ferran in conversation with curators Bryony Nainby and Brent Harrison

1:30pm: Afternoon tea

2:00 – 3:00pm: Artists Deanna Hitti (Mezze) and Michele Elliot (Held: On care and collections) in conversation with curator Lee Kinsella

Anne Ferran is a prominent Australian artist working across photography and video. Throughout her career, Ferran has repeatedly explored the meagre residues of Australia’s colonial past, paying particular attention to the lives of women and children and their exclusion from recorded history.

Ferran’s illuminated chest of drawers, Spill, is exhibited in Strange Sensation.

Michele Elliot is a visual artist, educator and occasional writer living and working on Wodi Wodi Country. Her practice spans textiles, sculpture, installation, and drawing. Michele’s artworks are material explorations in relation to human connectivity, mapping, and memory.

Michele has developed artworks in response to works from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art in her exhibition Held: On care and collections.

Deanna Hitti is an Australian artist based in Melbourne with Lebanese heritage. Her multidisciplinary arts practice spans over 25 years and investigates representations of the Middle East through the lens of historical and cultural material. Her solo exhibition, Mezze, uses culinary traditions as a lens through which to explore what it means to be Australian, both historically and in the present day.

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

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Visiting LWAG

Exhibitions run 31 July – 19 September 2026, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-4pm. Entry is always free.

We acknowledge we are situated on Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay our respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we live and work across Western Australia and Australia.

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