Dr. Yantra de Vilder (Doctorate in Creative Arts Western Sydney University)
ARTIST BIO
As an artist, I am experimenting all the time, creating a dynamic cogency that doesn’t necessarily follow a rulebook - and is not easily defined. I’m interested in the fragility and power of the creative process. These ideas formulate a personal ecology and artistic credo.
During lockdown I reinvented myself as a film maker and sent my music art films out to international film festivals. These award winning pieces form the basis of the musical and visual part of Credo, a multi-arts manifesto.
During the last few years I birthed the initiative Pianos for the People. I believe that pianos are trees reinvented and they deserve recycling and saving.
Developing my visual arts side has been exciting with the creation of digital illuminations and abstract images through animation and mixed media.
Recent Awards and Grants
Winner - Amsterdam Movie Festival, Cannes Art Festival, Cannes Independent Shorts, Toronto Film and Script Awards, New York Independent Cinema Awards, The Indie Fest Film Awards LA, Berlin Shorts, California Indies, Berlin International Art Film Festival, Santa Cruz Independent Film Festival, LA Independent Women Film Awards, Sydney indie Short Festival, Tokyo Shorts, WRPN Women’s International Film Festival, Stockholm, Toronto, Venice Shorts, Los Angeles, New Wave Short Film Los Angeles, Accolade Festival Los Angeles, LA Independent Film Festival, Toronto International Women Film Festival, Roma Short Film Festival, ARFF Amsterdam, Nature Without Borders International Film Festival, Barcelona International Awards, New York Tri State Film Festival, Accolade Global Film Competition, London’s Latitude Film Awards
Northern Rivers Community Grant Credo 2024
Wyong Art House Residency Award 2023
Australia Day Awards Services to Arts and Culture (Nomination) 2022
Create NSW Award for Pianos for the People - 2022
Create NSW Award Play The City (Sydney Festival) Grant for Pianos for the People – 2021
NSW Multi-cultural Arts Grant - ‘Celebrating Diversity’ – 2020, 2019
2023Worthy Women Award Gosford Regional Community Services - 2020
Central Coast Council Grant – ‘Place Activation Grant’ - 2019
BANFF Creative Arts Centre Canada, Artist Residency Award – 2018
Banff Creative Arts Centre Canada, Centre Piano Endowment - 2018
Rotary Club Award Australia – Pride of Workmanship – 2018
Community Cultural Arts Grant Awarded , Central Coast Council - 2018
BANFF Creative Arts Centre Canada, Artist Residency Award – 2017
Ernie and Sandra Green Music Scholarship, Canada - 2017
Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Artist Residency Award – 2017
APRA Western Sydney University Award for composition - 2016
Producer, Composer, Performer, Creative Director, Film maker for Credo 2022 - 2024
Founder, Creative Director, Performer and Producer of Pianos for the People Installation Launches - Sydney Harbour Bridge 2022, Mullumbimby RSL with David Helfgott, Mullumbimby Community Gardens, The Entrance Waterfront Festival, Pearl Beach Pink Onion Sculpture Garden, Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Avoca Beach, Manly Festival, The Paddock Mullumbimby, Mullumbimby Community Gardens, The Church of Aquarius, Nimbin, Kohinur Hall Main Arm, PLUS re-homing pianos to 15 flood affected people from the Northern Rivers.
View the ABC iview short filmed in June 2022 “ART IS EVERYWHERE”
Artistic Director , creative director, composer and performer for The Opening Ceremony 5 Lands Walk 2017- 2022
Composer and Conductor The Ephemera Community Choir 2017- current
Founding member Gender Equity Committee Australian Guild of Screen Composers 2017- current. Chair 2023
Artist in Residence Wyong Art House 2022 - 2023 to develop Credo
Artist Residencies Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Canada 2015 - 2019
Place Activation Grant Central Coast Council - 5 Lands Walk Opening Ceremony
Multi-cultural Arts Celebrating Diversity grant- 5 Lands Walk Opening Ceremony
Doctorate in Creative Arts, Western Sydney University
More Awards and Grants
Winner Best Sydney Indie Short Festival, Toronto Indie Shorts, Tokyo Shorts, New York Independent Film Awards, The IndieFest Film Awards, Berlin Shorts Award, Santa Cruz Independent Film Festival, California Indies, Music Video Venice 2022 - 2023
American Filmgraphic Awards New York - Best Experimental Film 2021 (Composer, Creative Director)
Winner Best Music Video Toronto Women’s Film Festival - (Composer, Creative Director) 2022
Winner Best Experimental film – Amsterdam Around Film Awards 2022
Winner London’s Latitude Film Awards – Best Original Score and Best Music Video 2020
Around Films International Globe Award finalist - Berlin and Barcelona - 2020 (Composer, Creative Director)
Official Selection – Tokyo, Rome, Montreal, Los Angeles, Munich, Berlin, Paris, London, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne Independent Film Festivals – 2020
Create NSW Play the City – Pianos for the People 2021
NSW Multi-cultural Arts Grant - ‘Celebrating Diversity’ - 2019. 2020
Worthy Women Award - Gosford Regional Community Services - 2020
Central Coast Council Grant – ‘Place Activation Grant’ - 2019
BANFF Creative Arts Centre Canada, Artist Residency Award – 2018
Banff Creative Arts Centre Canada, Centre Piano Endowment - 2018
Rotary Club Award Australia, Pride of Workmanship – 2018
Community Cultural Arts Grant Awarded, Central Coast Council - 2018
BANFF Creative Arts Centre Canada, Artist Residency Award – 2017
Ernie and Sandra Green Music Scholarship, Canada - 2017
Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Artist Residency Award – 2017
APRA Western Sydney University Award for composition -2016
Aria World Music Award – Nomination for Jane Rutter’s Flute Spirit (Co-producer) – 2015
Community Cultural Arts Grant Awarded, Central Coast Council - 2014
Overseas study award (Paris, New York) – University of Western Sydney - 2013
Australian Post Graduate Award – Doctorate in Creative Arts - 2012