Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. To date Wallworth has exhibited widely in Australasia. Forma represents Lynette Wallworth worldwide for touring of the artist's installation work with a current focus on developing new exhibition dates in Europe.
In Wallworth's current body of work, she specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments which offer a tactile gateway. 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.
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. To date Wallworth has exhibited widely in Australasia. Forma represents Lynette Wallworth worldwide for touring of the artist's installation work with a current focus on developing new exhibition dates in Europe.
In Wallworth's current body of work, she specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments which offer a tactile gateway. 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.
The artist describes her intention as ‘bringing together technological advances and ancient understandings, new media and old practices, electronics and the electricity of human touch.’
Wallworth was awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts 2003–2004. Recent 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. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK, presented the European premiere of Wallworth's work with Still:Waiting2 in 2006, and she completed an Arts Council England Fellowship residency at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK. In November 2006, the first major European solo exhibition of her work took place at the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna. In early 2007, the National Glass Centre in Sunderland hosted Wallworth's first UK solo show, whilst the Auckland Triennial featured her most recent work Evolution of Fearlessness. Damavand Mountain was presented in Regarding Fear and Hope at Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 2007. The BFI Gallery London commissioned the next stage of her work Hold, presenting Hold: Vessel 2 in June 2007. In September, Still:Waiting2 was presented at John Curtin Gallery as part of Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2007.
