LYNETTE WALLWORTH
Australian artist/filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is renowned for creating profoundly empathetic works while pushing the boundaries of emerging technologies. She works primarily in immersive environments including 360 film, virtual reality, interactive video, digital full dome and in feature documentary.
Her work reflects on connections between people and the natural world and engages viewers in the consideration of fragile human states of grace.
Wallworth making COLLISIONS on Martu Country with Nyarri Morgan
Wallworth making AWAVENA with Yawanawa children in Mutum Village, Acre, Brazil
Wallworth has received multiple international awards for her work including two Emmys. In 2017 she received a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for Outstanding New Approaches in Documentary for her Virtual Reality narrative Collisions (2016) . In 2019 she received a second Emmy® in the same category for her XR work Awavena (2018).
Lynette Wallworth and Angelique Kidjo at the World Economic Forum, Cultural Leaders Meeting , Davos 2020
George Miller presenting The Byron Kennedy Award to Lynette at the 4th AACTA Awards 2016
Wallworth's works have shown at venues and festivals across the world, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Smithsonian; Venice Film Festival, IDFA, CPHDOX, London Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival among others.
Presenting COLLISIONS to Hans Blix and delegates of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Meeting at the United Nations with Nicole Newnham.
Laura Yawanawa, Sibylle Szaggars, Robert Redford, Tashka Yawanawa and Lynette Wallworth - AWAVENA, New Frontiers, Sundance Film Festival
Shari Frilot, Curtis Taylor, Nyarri Morgan, Nola Taylor and Lynette Wallworth presenting COLLISIONS at Sundance Film Festival
Anya Salih, Lynette Wallworth and Hushahu Yawanawa - AWAVENA at the Venice Film Festival
Wallworth is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Governance Working Group and was the Director of the Forum’s New Narratives Lab. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW and at AFTRS and currently is Artist in Residence at the School of Cybernetics, ANU. Wallworth is the only Australian ever to sit on the board of The Sundance Institute.
Tashka Yawanawa and Lynette Wallworth at The Armory NYC for Wallworth’s VR Film Salon.
Wallworth stands in front of The Knotted Gun, United Nations, New York, after presenting Collisions in 2016.
Speaking with photographer Platon at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland 2020
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
World Documentary Jury 2017