Name | Shaun Wilson

Country | Australia

DOB | 1972

Email | shaun.wilson@rmit.edu.au

Web| www.shaunwilsonresearch.blogspot.com

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Statement | Shaun Wilson

Dr Shaun Wilson is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and academic working with themes of memory, place and scale. He is currently a Lecturer in the School of Creative Media at RMIT University and holds undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts from Monash University and RMIT University, a PhD from the University of Tasmania and is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. Exhibitions and screenings have included Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Germany, USA, UK, Spain, Norway and Italy.

The recent collective series, Uber memoria (1-7), re-appropriates various character-based portraits located in medieval religious paintings at St. Michael's church in the Southern German town of Schwaebisch Hall. These images are then recreated through performative video and filmed in locations of significance in Germany, England, New Zealand and Australia as a way of repositioning memories of the original image(s) into locations that themselves hold memories of historical impact thus captured through video. In doing so, the dilemma for the image is now three-fold: (1) strained under the weight of separate locations coming together to form a new image - how does this impact on the idea of originality?, (2) the impact on memory through the conceptualisation of juxtaposing two moments of the past together into the present at the same time, and (3) how the nature of video reproduces these kinds of images into another version of the original, a third generational copy - a 'memory' of a witnessed event.