Shaun Gladwell
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Shaun Gladwell
“video is the new photography”- To Shaun Gladwell –“for me, these videos are like moving paintings. You can have them constantly playing on the wall as captured moments”. In this young artists works he displays his personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Australian contemporary artist Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is a former skateboarding champion turned video and interactive artist. His video works, set in Sydney look at the life of the city in a different way. Gladwell see’s large cities as being too organised and functional. In his artwork, he tries to make the point that cities don’t have to be just for work. He does not want to live in a city that is to neat and organized, where skateboarding and graffiti are forbidden. Gladwell’s work takes skateboarding, which is often written off as time wasting or as belonging to an illegal youth culture, and presents it as a way of breathing life back into the city. Influenced by his experiences in Australia’s landscape of the outback, and Mad Max movies, the work is a suite of video’s accompanied by sound, photographic and sculptural works. Gladwell’s work critically engages personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Shaun finds poetry in popular culture. He is often the subject and the director or maker of his work. The actors or subjects in his videos include skateboard riders, break dancers, bike riders and material artists. Gladwell’s video’s focus on the beauty of their extraordinary physical strength and on the skill and of the visual tricks they perform. He uses devices such as slow motion and long takes to enhance the poetry of each movement and in the process he intensifies our appreciation of urban life.
Artworks.
blue and white linework composition.
Gladwell often refers to the history of art in his video works. In blue and white...
“video is the new photography”- To Shaun Gladwell –“for me, these videos are like moving paintings. You can have them constantly playing on the wall as captured moments”. In this young artists works he displays his personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Australian contemporary artist Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is a former skateboarding champion turned video and interactive artist. His video works, set in Sydney look at the life of the city in a different way. Gladwell see’s large cities as being too organised and functional. In his artwork, he tries to make the point that cities don’t have to be just for work. He does not want to live in a city that is to neat and organized, where skateboarding and graffiti are forbidden. Gladwell’s work takes skateboarding, which is often written off as time wasting or as belonging to an illegal youth culture, and presents it as a way of breathing life back into the city. Influenced by his experiences in Australia’s landscape of the outback, and Mad Max movies, the work is a suite of video’s accompanied by sound, photographic and sculptural works. Gladwell’s work critically engages personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Shaun finds poetry in popular culture. He is often the subject and the director or maker of his work. The actors or subjects in his videos include skateboard riders, break dancers, bike riders and material artists. Gladwell’s video’s focus on the beauty of their extraordinary physical strength and on the skill and of the visual tricks they perform. He uses devices such as slow motion and long takes to enhance the poetry of each movement and in the process he intensifies our appreciation of urban life.
Artworks.
blue and white linework composition.
Gladwell often refers to the history of art in his video works. In blue and white...