Lynda Roberts | Principal
Lynda Roberts is a design and arts practitioner interested in the strategic development, curation and facilitation of permanent and temporary cultural and community spaces – especially those within the public realm.
Over the past ten years, Lynda has gained experience across a variety of commercial and community projects in this field – from Design Manager of retail projects nationally at Westfield, to Artistic Director of the arts program at the Great Escape / Cockatoo Island Festivals, to the design of the FBi Radio and Metro Screen facilities in Sydney.
Drawing on a background of architecture, public art and education, Lynda’s current practice is a unique hybrid – capitalising on the creative and economic potential of a project by the establishment of ‘best practice’ methodologies – tailored by context, scale, timeframe, budget and social sustainability.
Lynda has recently completed a Masters by Research in Architecture (Expanded Field) at RMIT exploring how this methodology can change the notion of authorship and present a different model for creative collaboration.
Lynda’s professional and academic work is underpinned by an active socially engaged art practice that explores new modes of engagement within public spaces, via the creation temporary interventions (DIY workshops to lo-tech audio visual immersions) as platforms for prompting conversation and establishing an empathetic awareness of one’s environment.
Scroll down for images from past projects:
Design guideline framework: Westfield Doncaster.
Design guidelines & design delivery: Westfield Bondi Junction. Photography: Paul Gosney.
Life Beyond the Tomb: Exhibition Design. Australian Museum.
Life Beyond the Tomb: Exhibition design process. Australian Museum.
Ceri Hann | Collaborator
Ceri Hann is a Melbourne based sound and arts practitioner. His practice tends to avoid categorisation – the outcomes of his creative process are more often defused in the wonder of everyday life.
Recent directions have seen a move toward establishing systems that enhance the conditions for creative group thinking. The use of low tech devices such as overhead projectors and line marking tools are used as the medium for mutually inspired activities for people that may not consider themselves artists.