Strange Sensation

31 July – 19 September 2026

Strange Sensation brings together contemporary artists from the UWA Art Collection whose works disturb our sense of the familiar.  Drawing on Surrealist and Freudian legacies of the uncanny, artworks in the exhibition represent blurred thresholds of affect, memory and perception. Faces, forms and suggestions of the body appear as sites of both connection and disquiet, revealing how the familiar can slip into the strange. In this space of uncertainty, Strange Sensation provokes the subconscious forces that animate our encounters with images and things.

Image: Rodney Glick, Defaced [no eyes], from the Defaced series, 2005-07, altered colour photograph, 35.3 x 25.3cm, The University of Western Australia Art COllection, University Senate Grant, 2008, © Rodney Glick, 2005-07