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Lynette Wallworth

Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. In her current body of work, she specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments that offer tactile gateways. Frequently, the works are developed in series to provide a sense of a cumulative process that changes over time. The environments are not passive spaces but rely on activation by the participant/viewer. The interplay between the moving image, sound, space and visitor as component elements in the ecosystem of a work is the artist’s primary focus.

Wallworth's work is about the relationships between ourselves and nature, about how we are made up of our physical and biological environments, even as we re-make the world through our activities. The activation of the work by the viewer becomes a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. She uses technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world.

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Lynette Wallworth is represented by Forma Arts and Media Limited
Photography: Colin Davison, courtesy of the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK (R)

Past Exhibitions

Sydney Festival ›
Beautiful Sunset ›
Duality of Light ›
Evolution of Fearlessness ›
Evolution of Fearlessness ›
Invisible by Night (solo exhibition) ›
Evolution of Fearlessness (solo exhibition) ›
Hold: Vessel 1 and 2 ›
Evolution of Fearlessness ›
Invisible by Night ›
Hold: Vessel 2, 2007 ›
Lynette Wallworth | National Glass Centre, UK ›
Hold: Vessel 1, 2001 ›
Damavand Mountain ›
Evolution of Fearlessness (various works) ›
Still:Waiting2 ›

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Forma: Lynette Wallworth — immersive environment challenges our perception of space

Lynette Wallworth - Sydney Festival 2010

Sydney-based artist Lynette Wallworth presents her trilogy of interactive installations at the Sydney Festival 2010.

The trilogy was recently completed by Duality of Light, commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund and presented at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum this year in the Festival's Art and Moving Image strand. It completes a series of works that together investigate powerful human emotions, such as grief, loss and the re-emergence of hope. Wallworth makes skillful use of video and responsive technologies to create deeply emotional and human experiences.

The trilogy was begun in 2004 with Invisible by Night, commissioned by Experimenta, Melbourne. The work was a response to the site of the City's former morgue and features a grieving woman who, when beckoned by a touch on the screen, wipes away the condensation to meet eyes with her visitor.

Evolution of Fearlessness premiered at New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna in 2006. This work features the portraits of 11 women who together represent the human instinct for survival and hope. Following persecution in their native countries, these women have rebuilt their lives in Australia.

Duality of Light is an immersive environment to be experienced by one person at a time. It allows each visitor to go on a unique and singular journey through a soundscape that challenges our perception of space. In navigating the installation environment, visitors will encounter others whose surprising presence reveals the Duality at the heart of the work.

Exhibition
7-24 January 2010 | Sydney Festival | Sydney, AU

Press coverage:

Realtime January 2010 - 'See yourself seeing'
www.Concreteplayground.com

Lynette Wallworth – Duality of Light (2009)
Commissioned by Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (2009)
Produced by Forma
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Lynette Wallworth – Evolution of Fearlessness (2006)
Commissioned by New Crowned Hope Festival, produced by Forma

Lynette Wallworth – Invisible by Night (2004)
Commissioned by Experimenta.org
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

www.australiacouncil.gov.au/">Australia Council for the Arts

Images:
Top left: Rocco Fasano
Top right: Colin Davison (courtesy of National Glass Centre and the artist)
Bottom left: Grant Hancock (courtesy of Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide)

Related links:

Lynette Wallworth ›
Duality of Light (solo exhibtion) ›
Duality of Light ›
Evolution of Fearlessness ›
Invisible by Night ›
Diary ›

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