Jelena Sinik
Animated Filmmaker, Illustrator & Educator
Paris Light Walk 2021
L’évolution en voie d’illumination
The Paris Festival of Lights 2021 edition opened at Jardin des Plantes on November 29th. The extraordinary artists at Public Art Australia worked hard work over the 2020 Covid lockdowns designing 400+ light sculptures as an end-to-end narrative light walk experience of life on earth.
Jelena was commissioned by Lucy Keeler to create light lantern sculptures for the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle grounds. This includes technical sketches from conception to fabric design and final lantern & scene design.
This video contains footage courtesy of @AllAroundDreams, featuring sculptures designed by Jelena Sinik & Nicolette Axiak in collaboration with the team at PAA headed by Lucy Keeler.
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Production / Event Partners: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle & China Light Festival
Production Research: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Art & Design: Public Art Australia
Artists: Jelena Sinik, Nicolette Axiak, Tumen Altangadas, Julian Reinhold, Zara Pasfield, Renzo B. Larriviere, Gemma Ferguson, Luke Turk
Music: Miles Nicholas
Artistic Director / Lead Artist: Lucy Keeler
Fabrication and Production: Tracy Wang and the team at Tianyu Arts & Culture
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Footage: All Around Dreams, youtube.com/watch?v=-ATVX-B59F0&t=1730s
Music: After All - Geographer
Enlighten Festival Canberra 2023
Enlighten Festival Canberra
The 'Before Us' illumination show opened at Civic Square in Canberra on March 3rd, 2023.
The show featured several prehistoric sculptures from Public Art Australia's collection, originally displayed in Paris - including 3 of Jelena's designs.
Jelena's Smilodon, Megatherium and Oiseaux fossiles Confuciusornis light lanterns lit up the space until March 13th.