Studies have shown that people often spend only a few seconds looking at objects within galleries and museums. 

There is now a growing trend challenging this norm and instead encouraging the concept of 'slow looking'. This idea asks you to instead spend much longer with just one object, allowing you the time to make new discoveries and personal connections.

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

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, with a focus on Panoramic View of Albany (Kinjarling), The Place of Rain, 2019. A digital artwork by Sohan Ariel Hayes. 

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 

Lisa Collyer is the author of the poetry collections, Gold Digger (2025), shortlisted for the WA Premier's Poetry Book of the Year Award (2026), and How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up (2023), shortlisted 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 recently was an artist in residence at The National Trust of WA and Bundanon Art Museum (2025). She is currently writing a literary novel on grief, booze, and jazz.

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Slow Looking Club will continue in 2027, stay tuned for more information!