Lucinda Clutterbuck is an independent animator and artist.
Lucinda is an animator with extensive experience in the film industry and a fine artist working in a wide range of media. She is also an educator who lectures and facilitates workshops.
She has been awarded a Filmmakers Fellowship by the Australian Film Commission in recognition of her skills and significant body of work.
Lucinda’s short film Tiga, about the fate of the Tasmanian Tiger, which she wrote, animated and directed, continues to be included in Australian animation collections. She created award winning ABC TV series The Web as a way of expressing her concern about the number of animals facing extinction. The 13 x 5 minute film project involved a wide range of artists: painters, animators, film editors, musicians, writers and actors, and was supported by many scientific experts. The series received the ATOM Award for Excellence in Production, the Environment Education Award at Earth Vision in Japan and Most Artistic Animated Film at Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. It was re-released as Animal Tales and as Les Contes des Animaux with Tiga in France. Lucinda also created the SBS commissioned series Walnut and Honeysuckle. She is currently developing an animated web series called BUDs with her son Lewis Argall and Nik Malbasic, who are both graduates of The Academy of Interactive Entertainment.
Lucinda has made over 30 short animations, including music videos for Australian artists INXS, Flotsam Jetsam and Joe Camilleri and the Black Sorrows. Her animation for The Machination’s Pressure Sway remains an iconic Australian music video.
‘One Day I Woke Up And I Was Angry’ is an ongoing trans-media documentary project directed by Lucinda that explores the world of 12-18 year old youths through abstract expression and animation. Lucinda executive produced documentary ‘Midnight Oil: 1984’ and various other film projects, and mentors emerging filmmakers.
Installation works created by Lucinda have been exhibited with the Agardish Artists’ Collective at 107 Projects, Intersect Arts and Articulate Project Space and she created a public art project in Toulouse, France, working with La Menagerie in collaboration with La Mairie de Tournefeuille in various spaces around the city. Lucinda and Lewis Argall contributed to Forward/Story in Costa Rica, a global collaboration led by Lance Weiler and Christy Dena.
As a lecturer, Lucinda has worked at the Sydney College of the Arts, Deakin University, Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Technology Sydney. She has designed short courses in experimental film and animation and developed workshops for teachers of media, theatre companies, schools and special needs groups.
Lucinda runs flexible animation workshops for groups of up to 12.