Gladwell exhibited his work in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
Shaun Gladwell is an Australian contemporary artist who has gained worldwide acclaim for his video art, painting and photographs. Gladwell is a digital artist, whose interests often reflect his work, such as freestyle skateboarding, which he skillfully combines into his works paying homage to the past and present. In art historical terms, it is Gladwells embodiment of the physical and aesthetic risks which aligns him with artists who combine sport and art, as he himself embraces both a a street manner and art. Gladwell describes his video art as “performance landscapes”, and regardless of whether they are set in rural or urban settings usually present a juxtaposition of the visual against the environment where it actually exists. Gladwell often uses filmic devices such as slow-motion and long pans 9in order to capture both tightly choreographed and improvised performances. The results are surprisingly hypnotic as well as being beautifully poetic, due to the distortion of speed, reversed gravity or overall displacement of space and time. Gladwell has been exhibiting throughout Australia, Asia, the United States and Europe.
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