Lynette Wallworth Named Inaugural AFTRS Creative Fellow

July 14, 2010 09:30

Lynette Wallworth, internationally renowned video installation artist, was announced as the first Australian Film Television and Radio School Creative Fellow.

Sandra Levy, AFTRS CEO said “Lynette Wallworth is certainly one of those artists who has the imagination and ability to tell wonderful stories in a new form that astound audiences and engage them on an emotional level. As a pioneer in her field, it is a great pleasure to name her our very first Creative Fellow”

Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. She specialises in the creation of immersive installation artworks that offer viewers a chance to touch and feel them and to experience an emotional response.

Wallworth will use the Fellowship to support her writing and to devise a full-length work to be shown in digital planetariums around the world.

This will form part of a broader cross platform project entitled Rekindling Venus, to be launched in June 2012 and produced by Sue Maslin, Film Art Media and Forma.org.uk

The Australian Film Television and Radio School Creative Fellowship is designed to advance the work of creative voices in the screen arts and broadcasting sector and provides funding for talented individuals or small collaborative groups with ideas for moving image or screen-based projects.

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