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.

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

Visiting LWAG

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

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We acknowledge we are situated on 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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View all related events to the exhibitions at uwa.edu.au/lwag/Events

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

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