Lucinda Clutterbuck is an independent artist animator and has produced numerous music video clips as well as animations for TV and cinema. When she was five she started school with the Loreto nuns. She had been looking forward to this event but when the day finally came she was not on the role. Some bureaucratic bungle, which caused her to sit cramped on her suitcase between the aisles while those around her had desks and lockers, changed the course of her school life. From then on it was a count down.
After 12 years with the nuns they had had enough of each other and she found her way to France to study at Les Beaux Arts d’Orleans. There spent her time learning french and playing pool at the café across the road from the art school. After having been warned by a kind french drawing teacher that she was losing her way she went to Paris to study print making. After breaking a priceless limestone block in the lithography press she panicked and headed home.
In 1983 she collaborated with her mates the Machinations to make a video clip called “Pressure sway” which enjoyed unexpected success. It seemed almost by accident she became a “clip Maker” and by default, an “animator”. Since then she has made over twenty short films for TV and cinema, many of which have made their way to the cinema screens in different countries around the world.
By chance Lucinda discovered that though she had hated school she actually liked teaching and she has taught experimental and traditional animation workshops in France
and Australia.
In 2000 after her last animated film: “Walnut and Honeysuckle” for SBSI she suffered burn out and took some time off to learn to play ice Hockey.
In 2005 Lucinda spent two years making a documentary about women’s ice hockey in Australia called ‘Ice Time’.
Throughout she has continued to paint and draw extensively and is now committed to embracing the challenges of the digital world.
In 2006 Lucinda worked on a fellowship with Catherine Gleeson to develop her stories and pictures for the internet.
She lives with her husband and two children and continues to play goalie in her local ice hockey team.
In 2007 she opened her on line art gallery and website piccolofilms.com.au