1. Shaun Gladwell was born on 1972 and is an Australian contemporary artist whose work spans moving image, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and virtual reality.
25 Facts About Shaun Gladwell
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Shaun Gladwell subsequently gained a master's degree from the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts and undertook further studies as an associate researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London on a Samstag Scholarship from the University of South Australia.
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In interviews, Shaun Gladwell has described his interest in forms of Street dance, extreme sport, and skateboarding.
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The series included video of Shaun Gladwell car surfing and ritualistically burying roadkill kangaroos.
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In late 2009, Shaun Gladwell was the Australian War Memorial's Australian official war artists in Afghanistan.
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Shaun Gladwell has stated that during this commission he became both reliant upon and extremely critical of military technology within the theatre of war.
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In January 2016, Shaun Gladwell presented a new video work titled Skateboarders VS Minimalism.
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In mid to late 2019, Shaun Gladwell exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney with Pacific Undertow.
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Pacific Undertow was the largest survey exhibition to date of the work of Australian artist Shaun Gladwell, best known for his videos representing the body in motion.
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Shaun Gladwell's portrait of Julian Assange was a finalist for the 2024 Archibald Prize.
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In early 2024, Shaun Gladwell has taken on a unique role as artist-in-residence at Curt Shi's venture capital funds, Imprint Capital Partners and Welinder Shi Capital.
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In 2016, Shaun Gladwell co-founded BADFAITH, an independent virtual reality content collective with senior film and television producer Leo Faber.
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In interviews, Shaun Gladwell stated BADFAITH as a direct reference to the concept proposed by Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Belvouire.
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Shaun Gladwell has produced several VR experiences through the BADFAITH network including the 6 minute animation Orbital Vanitas.
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In 2016 Shaun Gladwell was the first documented artist to sell a virtual reality artwork on the Australian market.
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Shaun Gladwell was commissioned by the 2013 Gergiev Festival to produce video art for a concert version of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
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Shaun Gladwell interpreted Richard Wagner's opera as an Australian surf film by replacing all sailing references in the libretto with ones involving surfing.
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Shaun Gladwell has presented several live performances and choreographies since 2011.
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In 2012, Shaun Gladwell directed a chapter titled "Family" for the feature film The Turning.
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Shaun Gladwell cast Meyne Wyatt and Wayne Blair into the roles of two brothers in dispute.
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In 2015, Shaun Gladwell published an artist book titled PATAFUNCTIONS in association with his solo exhibition titled The Lacrima Chair at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.
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The art critic most vocally against Shaun Gladwell's work is John McDonald who identifies the work as 'hype'.
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Shaun Gladwell has been exhibiting extensively throughout Australia, Asia, the United States and Europe since 2001.
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In 2009, Shaun Gladwell was Australia's representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
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Shaun Gladwell occasionally competes in freestyle skateboarding events such as the 2011 Malmo Super Bowl in Sweden and the 2012 World Roundup in Cloverdale Canada.