In Conversation: Gladys Milroy with Aurora Milroy and Jessyca Hutchens

Schedule

Sat Nov 01 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery | Perth, WA

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Join us for an intergenerational discussion of art and community as exhibiting artist Gladys Milroy speaks with her granddaughters, Aurora Milroy, and Jessyca Hutchens, about her practice.
Gladys Milroy, a Palyku woman who was born in Perth in 1927, and a member of the Stolen Generations, has led a life of passionate advocacy, creativity, and knowledge-sharing. Reflecting upon a lifetime of stories, she became a prolific drawer in her 90s. Her artworks create imaginative worlds that explore profound ideas around healing and reconnection, colonisation and environmental destruction, and the agencies and rights of children.
Jessyca Hutchens is co-director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and a lecturer at the UWA School of Indigenous Studies. She is an academic, curator and art historian, with a DPhil (PhD) in art history from the University of Oxford.
Aurora is a Palyku woman and Director of Policy at the National Native Title Council. Aurora has worked across the tertiary, not for profit and government sectors and holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford.
Gladys Milroy’s work is exhibited in Place Makers, alongside three other senior women artists - Fiona Foley, Margaret Morgan, and Edith Trethowan. Each artist takes inspiration from the gritty realities of everyday life to re-frame these moments as extraordinary. Place Makers offers diverse and nuanced perspectives for understanding the relationships of place and community. Place Makers will be on display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery until 27 December.
Gallery open Tuesday - Saturday 11AM-4PM.
Free event | All welcome | Bookings essential
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Place Makers draws attention to the work of four exceptional artists whose work is grounded in relationships of place and community. Each artist takes inspiration from the gritty realities of everyday life to re-frame these moments as extraordinary, with nuanced and closely observed narratives offering diverse perspectives for understanding the world. Spanning from the 1920s to the present day, the exhibition features new and loaned works alongside holdings from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art.
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Image Credit:Gladys Milroy, The Learning Tree, c. 2020, ink on paper, 29.7 x 21cm, Collection of the artist.
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