Lynette Wallworth

Interactive Media Artist (Sydney, London)

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.

Lynette Wallworth was awarded a Synapse Residency in 2008 to develop new work with marine biologist Dr Anya Salih by The Confocal Bio-Imaging Facility (CBIF) at University of Western Sydney. In 2003–2004 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship which enabled her to undertake residencies in Iran, Italy and New Mexico. In 2006 she completed an Arts Council England Fellowship residency at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.

Her exhibitions include Invisible by Night, commissioned by Experimenta for the 2004 Melbourne Festival; Still: Waiting1, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney as part of Terra Alterius, which toured to galleries throughout Australia during 2005; the premiere of Still: Waiting2, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK, 2006; her first major European solo exhibition Lynette Wallworth – Evolution of Fearlessness, New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2006; her first UK solo show, Lynette Wallworth, National Glass Centre in Sunderland, 2007; Auckland Triennial, New Zealand, 2007; Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 2007; Hold: Vessel 2, BFI Gallery, London, UK, 2007; Still Waiting2, John Curtin Gallery, Perth; a solo exhibition Evolution of Fearlessness, Festival International d’Art Lyrique, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2008; Invisible by Night, Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, USA, 2008; Evolution of Fearlessness was presented at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008, and in 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival, Utah.