Slow Looking Club

Studies have shown that people often spend only a few seconds looking at objects within galleries and museums. There is now growing trend that challenges this and encourages 'slow looking', where we are encouraged to spend much longer with just one object allowing time to make new discoveries and personal connection with it.   

Slow Looking Club invites you to sit with a selection of Museum objects, observed gently and without hurry. During the session you will be guided by a host to explore details, textures, stories and questions that only emerge when you give yourself permission to pause. 

Join us for Slow Looking Club's inaugural session on Saturday 13 June. In this session, we will be guided by writer Lisa Collyer as we look at one of the most iconic galleries of the WA Museum Boola Bardip, WA Treasures. 

Let yourself be slowly guided through this gallery space allowing for meaningful engagement with just a few specially selected objects. This is an opportunity to slow down, look closely and engage deeply.    

We encourage a multidisciplinary approach to these sessions, so please feel free to bring in notebooks, pens and other items if you would like to sketch, take notes, write or journal. *  

* Please do not bring paints or any items that require clean-up 

About the host: 

Lisa Collyer is the author of two poetry collections, Gold Digger (2025) and How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up (2023), the latter being short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award, and both published with Life Before Man Books. Her personal essay, ‘Prolonged Exposure’ is published in the anthology, Women of a Certain Courage (2025) with Fremantle Press. Her poem, ‘The Grape Pickers’ was short-listed for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2025). She was a recent artist in residence for The National Trust of W.A. and Bundanon Art Museum. She is currently writing a literary novel on grief, booze and jazz.

Slow Looking Club will run monthly with further dates to follow.