Shaun Gladwell

Shaun Gladwell is a video artist from Sydney. He went to Sydney College of the Arts and then completed postgraduate research at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales. In 2001 he won a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to study at Goldsmith’s College in London and completed a prestigious residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. A founding member of Imperial Slacks artists collective in 2000, he exhibited more and more widely and has had recent exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and at Art in General in New York.

His work focuses on popular culture and in corporates references to art history. Gladwell speaks about the philosophy behind his work, the concept of the “isolated figure moving and struggling through the panoramas of nature (urban and ‘real’) in a possible engagement with the sublime” .