Shaun Gladwell, the Australian multimedia artist who represented his country at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and who has just returned from being an official war artist in Afghanistan, told The Art Newspaper that his experiences were “inspirational” and will inform his next body of work.
Gladwell was speaking on his return from Oruzgan province, where he lived and worked for three weeks alongside Australian soldiers in October 2009. He says he will spend the next six months in his Sydney studio, working to “digest” his experiences while in the field. “I’m cherishing [the trip], and starting to analyse what’s taken place at this particular time,” he said.
Before settling back into his studio to work with the raw photographs and moving images he shot in Afghanistan, Gladwell returned to » Read more: Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan
