About

Anne Scott Wilson

Anne Scott Wilson is an Australian artist and researcher whose practice spans light installations, hybrid sculptural paintings, and interactive digital environments. Working at the intersection of technology and embodied experience, her installations explore themes of memory, motion, and phenomenological perception.

Wilson's research-based practice is informed by her background in ballet and her doctoral work at Monash University, which investigated spatial experience and temporal perception. This unique combination of embodied knowledge and theoretical inquiry shapes her approach to creating immersive artworks that engage with questions of presence, absence, and the body's relationship to space.

Her work employs a range of technologies including motion capture systems, Unreal Engine, and custom software to create responsive installations that blur the boundaries between physical and digital space. Through light, projection, and interactive elements, she creates environments that invite viewers to become active participants in the work.

In addition to her studio practice, Wilson is an active scholar and curator. She has published catalogue essays and academic papers, and her curatorial projects explore the intersections of art, technology, and embodied experience. She holds the position of Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, where her teaching and research complement her artistic investigations.

Wilson has exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Previously represented by Conny Dietzschold Gallery, she continues to work with curators and institutions to develop new projects that push the boundaries of installation and new media art.

Education: PhD, Monash University (Fine Art) • BA (Hons), RMIT (Painting)

Position: Senior Lecturer, Deakin University

Practice: Dance & Light

A 10-year practice exploring bodily intelligence, quantum reciprocity, and the eternal nature of light through pinhole photography (2013–2023)

During COVID lockdowns, I returned to questions I had been exploring since Fly Rhythm (2013): What if light is eternal? What if imagery's repeatability challenges photography's claim to capture singular moments?

In 1981, I danced cabaret in Japan—performing a copy of a copy of a copy of choreography with vaudevillian origins. This experience mirrors my photographic practice: repeating pinhole images, printing and reprinting, testing how many times the same light can be materialized before it deteriorates. Both ask: What remains alive in endless repetition?

Robert Lanza's biocentrism proposes that reciprocity is fundamental when you're alive—that observer and observed are entangled. This resonates in my work. Whether dancing or spinning with a camera at arm's length, I use bodily intelligence against automation: guessing exposure times as the sun descends, then testing in Photoshop whether my procedural memory of light was accurate.

The cabaret dancer, the photographer, the quantum physicist—all participate in reciprocal witnessing that transforms both seer and seen. As long as we have bodies, this play continues. Light remains eternal.

Three Solo Exhibitions

Awards & Recognition

Public Art Project, Yarra Street Geelong

Geelong City Council

Forthcoming

2024

Playing in the Shadows

Yarra City Council

Commission

2023

New Work Grant

City of Geelong

2020

Iconic Industries with VacantGeelong

Geelong Council

Development Grant

2020

Beehive: Reveal our City with ARS Electronica

Geelong Council for Geelong After Dark

2019

Every Day I Wait #3

Museum of Brisbane

Programmed with Mao's Last Dancer exhibition

2019

Studio 112 Development Grant

City of Geelong

2019

Development Grant

Australia Council for the Arts

2018

Bowness Photography Prize

Monash Gallery of Art

Finalist

2016

NAVA Carstairs Residency

National Association for the Visual Arts

Winner, Bundanon

2016

Substation Contemporary Art Prize

Substation

Finalist

2015

Scottish Bank Emerging Artist Award

Scottish Bank

Finalist

2011

Residency Liverpool UK

Australia Council for the Arts

2011

Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grant

Ian Potter Foundation

2009

Joseph Ulrich Photography Award

Joseph Ulrich Foundation

Finalist

2009

Creative Victoria Development Grant

Creative Victoria

2009

Blake Prize

Blake Society

Finalist

2008

Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Grant

Australia Council for the Arts

2008

Banff Residency

Australia Council for the Arts

2008

Can Serrat Artist Residency

Can Serrat

2007

Ethnographic Film Festival Artist Residency

Ethnographic Film Festival

Sardinia, Italy

2006

Faculty Postgraduate Award

Monash University

2003