Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist whose work spans moving image, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and virtual reality.

[citation needed] From 2007 until 2009 the artist applied many of his ideas concerning performance, gesture and the transformation of urban space to natural environments.

During this period, Gladwell spent extended amounts of time in the Australian desert, producing his iconic series of works titled Maddestmaximus (2009).

[3] The artist's work from this commission has been documented and analysed in the book Double War by Kit Messham-Muir, published by Thames and Hudson, 2015.

[5] The video features skateboarders (including professional Rodney Mullen) riding on exact replicas of well known minimalist artworks.

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.

It resonates with a sense of elemental forces, motion and the heft of gravity: key principles that inform Gladwell's work.

The Archibald requires the artist to have one "live sitting" with the subject, which was difficult because Assange was incarcerated in Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition to the US.

[10][11] In 2016, Gladwell co-founded BADFAITH, an independent virtual reality content collective with senior film and television producer Leo Faber.

In interviews, Gladwell stated BADFAITH as a direct reference to the concept proposed by Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Belvouire.

[19] Gladwell was commissioned by the 2013 Gergiev Festival to produce video art for a concert version of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

[citation needed] The anthology film is based on a collection of short stories by Australian author, Tim Winton.

This newspaper's Christopher Allen has described him as overrated, while his counterpart at The Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald, wrote a piece recently that questioned his appeal: "Watching the inexorable rise of Shaun Gladwell during the past decade makes me feel like the only teetotaller at a drunken party.

[28] Gladwell's photographs, lightboxes and videos have been collected by Elton John,[29] particularly work relating to human interaction with other species and the natural world.

He occasionally competes in freestyle skateboarding events such as the 2011 Malmo Super Bowl in Sweden and the 2012 World Roundup in Cloverdale Canada.