Shaun Gladwell
Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian video artist who has gained worldwide acclaim for his video art, painting and photographs.
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[edit] Early life
The artist was born in Sydney in 1972 and graduated from Sydney University's Sydney College of the Arts. He graduated with a Masters degree from the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts and untertook associate research at Goldsmiths College, London (2001-2)
[edit] Work
Gladwell is a digital artist, who skillfully combines past and present in a street manner.[1] In art historical terms, his embodiment of physical and aesthetic risk aligns him to artists who combine sport and art.[1]
Gladwell describes his video art as “performance landscapes”, and whether they are set in rural or urban settings, they usually present a juxtaposition of the visual against the environment where it exists. He often uses filmic devices such as slow-motion and long pans to capture both tightly choreographed and improvised performances. The resulting works are surprisingly hypnotic and beautifully poetic, due to their distortion of speed, reversed gravity or overall displacement of space and time.
Gladwell exhibited his work in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
The best examples of his video art sequences, as well as newly commissioned pieces, were presented at an exhibition located at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, in Melbourne's Federation Square, from June 1 to August 14, 2011.
Gladwell has been exhibiting throughout Australia, the United States and Europe.
[edit] Personal life
Gladwell is based in Sydney and London
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- In Sight/Arts: Aussie art with a tension twist, asahi.com, Jan 26, 2007
- Exhibition review by Joanna Mendelssohn, ArtLink Vol.23; No.3
- Bio details, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
- Interview with Shaun Gladwell on The Artnewspaper.tv
- Review of Double Voyage at Anna Schwartz Gallery 2008 by Tony Lloyd (Artist)
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