Friends Talk: Melissa Wraxall
04 November 2026
- Date: Wednesday 04 November
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Time: Doors open 5.45pm, Talk starts 6pm
We are delighted to invite Friends of the RWA to an exclusive talk by Melissa Wraxall.
For thousands of years, humans across the globe have keenly observed the cycles of the night sky, weaving mythology into the seasonal and navigational star knowledge they needed to survive. To complement the recent RWA show Cosmos, (now touring to Aberdeen) join Australian born, Bath based painter Melissa Wraxall, for insights into the celestial knowledge of First Nations artists from Australia, in 'Southern Skies: contemporary Aboriginal responses to the cosmos'.
Find out more about Melissa's practice here
If you cannot attend for any reason, please cancel officially either by contacting us or via your confirmation email, so that someone else may take your place.
This is a talk for Friends of the RWA.
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image: Melissa Wraxall, Black Drop Effect
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