• Shaun Gladwell
  In a Station of the Metro, 2006
  Videography: Gotaro Uematsu
  Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery: Sydney and Melbourne
  

Shaun Gladwell poetically links personal experience with contemporary culture and historical references through performance, video and sculpture. His recent works engage these concerns through forms of urban expression such as skateboarding, BMX bikeriding and breakdancing. Ghost Rider (2008) is a sculptural amalgam of mountain bicycles, sound and video. By inserting small speakers into the tubular bicycle frames, Gladwell transforms them into a functioning instrument and assigns the bikes a new, performing vocation. The bicycle ‘organ’ provides accompaniment to Gladwell’s video projection, which depicts bikeriding through Sydney streets at night. The rider performs stunts such as ‘wheelies’ and ‘ghosties’ (the latter referring to the bike gliding autonomously after the rider has dismounted while in motion).

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Shaun Gladwell
In A Station Of The Metro (online version), 2006-07
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Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery: Sydney and Melbourne

Marathon Line/Federation Parade, 2001
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Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery: Sydney and Melbourne

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