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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  22
• Lot Description:
  Shaun Gladwell
  (born 1972)
  Double Balancing Act, 2010
  production still, digital inkjet print
  73.0 x 110.0cm (28 3/4 x 43 5/16in). (image size)
• Provenance:
  The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney, a gift from the artist
• Notes:
  Our discovery of Shaun Gladwell's work whilst he was still a student at art school started a long, somewhat intense journey, involving ongoing mentoring, curatorial and transactional exchanges, intellectual discussions and ever-deepening friendship. Shaun and I met during the course of a local council art prize exhibition. During the judging process, together with my two respected co-judges, (a senior artist and an art school educator), I felt convinced we were in the presence of a promising emerging talent. He took home the coveted student prize and we acquired the winning work for our collection. Years and many accolades followed for the artist. Shaun won the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2001 and chose to study at Goldsmiths, London. When I found myself in London at the same time, we made a point of catching up over drinks and/or dinner. His insights into art history astounded me – as did his ability to structurally dissect the multifaceted aspects of visually significant works including painting, photography and the still relatively new moving image art forms. Our first Sherman Galleries show together, Festivus, mounted some years later in 2002, included the soon-to-become celebrated Storm Sequence (2000), the first edition of which is now included in New York's MOMA collection. The number of young people who crowded daily into the Gallery's welcoming spaces grew exponentially as word got around about what was clearly an extraordinary work. We share a love for Japan, for textual play and generally for the written word. In conjunction with Shaun's 2015 commission for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), we published an editioned, philosophical text titled Patafunctions, alongside a comprehensive bilingual English/French catalogue for his exceptional The Lacrima Chair / La Chaise Lacrima (2015). In the final year of exhibition making for the Foundation, I initiated, curated and activated A Thousand Horses, a mega cross-continent cutting edge Australian / Middle Eastern project designed to mark the seminal desert Charge of the Australian Light Brigade which helped free Palestine from the Ottomans, ushering in the British and, post WWII, the establishment of the State of Israel. The selected images relate to Shaun's core preoccupations: the performative dextrous body in space, the relationship between text and image, between urban and desert environments. Dr Gene Sherman
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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