Evolution of Fearlessness (still)
2006
produced by Forma
commissioned by New Crowned Hope Festival
Vienna
courtesy of the artist and Forma
photo: Rocco Fasano
LYNETTE WALLWORTH
Australia
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery
Audiences literally feel the presence of the women. In part this has come from a negotiation between them and me. I asked them to show themselves and the work is an experience of a kind of emergence and revelation. I thought about the fact that one has to seek permission to photograph or film in many traditional communities. This suggested to me that something might be imparted. I wondered what might be felt if I sought those permissions and if, with consciousness, these were given.... Essentially these women are elevated through the medium to another more mythic environment, one where their stories, though real, become representative of something greater.They carry in their bodies stories of our time, of this moment. We meet them in a space of intimacy where it hard to detect the viewer from the viewed.
- Lynette Wallworth, November 2006
Background
Lynette Wallworth was born in Sydney, Australia in 1961. Until recently she was based overseas, she now lives and works in Melbourne. Selected recent exhibitions include Invisible by Night, Melbourne International Festival, 2004; Still Waiting 1, Terra Alterius, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, 2004, which toured to galleries throughout Australia in 2005; Still Waiting 2, InBetween Time Festival, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2006; and New Crowned Hope Festival, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, 2006. Wallworth was awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts for 2003-4. The Fellowship allowed Wallworth to research and develop a new series of installations through residencies in Iran, Massachusetts, Lode Star Observatory, New Mexico. In 2006, she was awarded the inaugural International Artists Fellowship from the Arts Council England to develop new works at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Wallworth's work is discussed by Victoria Lynn in, Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2001 and the catalogue for the New Crowned Hope Festival.
