Australian artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is known for creating works with deep empathy, exploring the boundaries of new technologies. She works primarily in immersive environments such as 360° film, virtual reality, interactive video, digital full dome and documentary.

Her works reflect the connections between people and the natural world and involve the viewer in the observation of fragile human states of emergency.

Wallworth has received several 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).

Wallworth is a member of the World Economic Forum's Metaverse Governance Working Group and was Director of the Forum's New Narratives Lab. She has been Artist in Residence at the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW and AFTRS and is currently Artist in Residence at the School of Cybernetics, ANU. Wallworth is the only Australian ever to sit on the Sundance Institute Board.