Shaun Gladwell
Australian artist Shaun Gladwell critically and poetically links personal experience with contemporary culture and historical references through performance, video, painting and sculpture. In the video work Storm Sequence, Gladwell skateboards freestyle on a flat space of concrete above the crashing waves at Bondi. Storm Sequence presents freestyle skateboarding as a J.M.W. Turner painting. The work's beauty derives from the atmosphere and the ambient, not just Gladwell's balletic moves, the artist who wears Turner-esque shaded clothes adds to the mood.