Shaun Glad­well
SCAPE Pub­lic Art Bien­ni­al 7

As an accom­plished artist and skate­board­er, Shaun Gladwell’s prac­tice has long been inter­est­ed in pub­lic art as an aspect of the urban envi­ron­ment that can be appro­pri­at­ed by skate­board­ers. Gladwell’s series of steel sculp­tur­al works look to the inno­v­a­tive ways skat­ing oper­ates in a ​‘bro­ken’ environment.

The works were com­mis­sioned for the SCAPE Pub­lic Art Bien­ni­al 7 in 2013, which was post­poned due to the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake, that cre­at­ed huge fis­sures in the city urban landscape.

Curat­ed by Blair French