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Lynette Wallworth
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Speaking at the 2021 World Economic Forum
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | UNSW Art & Design |
| Occupation | Artist, filmmaker |
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Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist and filmmaker. She is famous for using new technologies like virtual reality (VR) in her art. She also creates interactive art installations.
Lynette has won two Emmy Awards for her work. One was for her 2016 VR project Collisions. This project tells the story of how Aboriginal Australians and Western culture met. It focuses on British nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s. Her other Emmy was for Awavena.
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Early Life and Education
Lynette Wallworth studied at the UNSW Art & Design university.
How Lynette Wallworth Creates Art
Lynette Wallworth makes different kinds of art. She creates 360-degree films for virtual reality. She also makes full-length documentaries and digital art for planetariums. Some of her art lets you interact with it.
Her work often explores the connections between people and nature. She likes to use the newest technology in her art. Lynette wants her art to make people feel connected and amazed. Her art often needs the viewer to take part in it.
Amazing Art Projects
In 2010, Lynette was asked to create videos for a music piece in the Netherlands. She also made interactive videos for an opera performance in England.
CORAL (2012): A Deep Dive into the Ocean
In 2012, Lynette created CORAL Rekindling Venus. This was an amazing film shown in a digital planetarium. The film shows beautiful underwater scenes of coral reefs and sea creatures. It highlights how these fragile places are in danger from global warming.
The film was first shown during the Transit of Venus event in 2012. It was screened in 23 cities around the world. CORAL was also part of the World Science Festival in New York City. Famous musicians like Antony Hegarty and Ryuichi Sakamoto contributed music to the film.
Lynette also made interactive posters for CORAL. You could use a mobile phone app called coral RKV to bring them to life.
Collisions (2016): A Story of First Contact
Lynette's VR story Collisions came out in 2016. It was one of the first mixed-reality artworks. The story is about Nyarri Morgan, a Martu man from the Australian desert. His first experience with Western culture was seeing the British nuclear testing in the 1950s.
Collisions was the first VR film ever shown at the Sundance Film Festival. It was also the first VR work shown at the Museum of Modern Art. The film was shown at many festivals worldwide, including Tribeca and the London Film Festival.
This project was also shown to a group of important people at the United Nations. They were discussing a treaty to ban nuclear tests. Collisions won an Emmy Award in 2017 for its new approach to documentary filmmaking.
Interactive Video Art
Lynette's interactive art often involves the viewer. In Hold: Vessel (2001), people hold a glass bowl in a dark room. The bowls "catch" images of tiny sea life and stars projected from above. Hold: Vessel 2 (2007) showed changes in ocean environments. It also included footage from the rare 2004 Transit of Venus.
Evolution of Fearlessness (2006) is another interactive artwork. Lynette filmed women from countries like Afghanistan and Sudan. These women had survived war or violence. The art lets a visitor place their hand on a video screen. Then, one of the women in the video places her hand on yours. This creates a very personal connection.
Other Films and Videos
Lynette made a video called Welcome for an exhibition in 2011. It showed different groups of people either welcoming visitors warmly or looking unfriendly.
In 2012, the Martu people invited her to make a video about their land. This work, called Still Walking Country, was shown at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Her documentary film Tender (2014) follows a community in Australia. They wanted to start their own non-profit funeral service. The film won several awards. The funeral service, called Tender Funerals, is now helping people in Port Kembla.
VR and Mixed Reality Art
Lynette's mixed reality artwork Awavena was first shown at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In September 2020, Awavena won an Emmy Award for its new approach to documentary filmmaking.
Where Her Art Has Been Shown
Lynette Wallworth's art has been shown all over the world. This includes the World Economic Forum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her work has also been featured at many film festivals like Sundance and the BFI London Film Festival.
In 2009, she had her biggest solo art show in Australia. It was at the Samstag Museum of Art.
Lynette Wallworth's Interests
After the terrible 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, Lynette became a strong supporter of action on climate change. In January 2020, she spoke at the World Economic Forum. She told the world about the fires and said new leaders were needed. She especially highlighted young people, women, and indigenous leaders.
As of As of 2017[update], Lynette Wallworth lives in Sydney, Australia.
Awards and Recognition
Lynette Wallworth has received many awards and honors for her creative work.
Fellowships and Special Honors
- She received fellowships from the Arts Council of England and the Australia Council for the Arts.
- She also received the Joan and Kim Williams Documentary Fellowship.
- In 2010, she was the first person to receive the AFTRS Creative Fellowship.
- In 2016, Foreign Policy magazine named her one of the "100 Leading Global Thinkers". This was for her work showing the power of nuclear weapons.
- In 2020, she became an Artist-in-residence at the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW. She explored how VR could help people who are dying.
- In 2022, she was a Cybernetic Imagination Resident at the Australia National University School of Cybernetics.
Awards
- 2012: Won the DomeFest Awards, Art category, for CORAL.
- 2014: Won an AACTA award for best televised documentary, for Tender.
- 2014: Won the Grand Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Oceania (FIFO), for Tender.
- 2016: Won the Byron Kennedy Award for Innovation and Excellence.
- 2016: Won the first Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award.
- 2017: Won an Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, for Collisions.
- 2020: Won a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum for her leadership.
- 2020: Won a UNSW Alumni Award for Art & Culture.
- 2020: Won an Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, for Awavena.
