Lynette Wallworth is a multimedia artist whose projects range from single and multiple screen works to installation and theatre. Her works explore interactivity as a metaphor for shared emotion and experience.
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1961, she has worked extensively internationally, and her works have featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions.
Her recent projects include Kafka Fragmente (2010), a collaboration with Hungarian composer György Kurtág on an opera cycle of 40 texts taken from Franz Kafka’s letters, diaries and notebooks. Wallworth’s video formed one third of the on-stage presentation offering a counterpoint narrative. In 2010 Wallworth also collaborated in the Young Vic production of Elegy for Young Lovers, an opera with music by Hans Werner Henze and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallma. Wallworth contributed interactive video pieces for audience members to respond to.
Duality of Light, a solo exhibition staged at the Samstag Museum in Adelaide in 2009, included the title piece – a major installation work which formed the last part of a trilogy – and earlier works including Invisible by Night (2004), Hold: Vessel 1 (2001) and Hold: Vessel 2 (2007), Damavand Mountain (2006), and Beautiful Sunset (2006).
The UK-based Forma intermedia organisation described Wallworth’s practice as “... the creation of immersive installation environments that offer tactile gateways to the viewing experience. Frequently, her projects 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.”
In June 2012, Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight (2012) was the first of Wallworth’s multi-part art work timed to coincide with the transit of Venus. An augmented reality project triggered by a series of images and delivered to mobile phones and webcam, the work opens “a virtual porthole to coral reefs and connected to real-time data”. The website www.rekindlingvenus.com describes the project as bringing “... a focus to the complexity of coral ecosystems around the world as they attempt to deal with increasing environmental stresses”.
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