The Australia Council for the Arts today announced Australia’s official representation for the Venice Biennale 2009.

Artist Shaun Gladwell will present his work MADDESTMAXIMVS in the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.MADDESTMAXIMVS is an evocative suite of five thematically interrelated videos, with several sculptural and photographic elements. The work is influenced by the Australian desert landscape, the Mad Max movies, as well as his own experiences in outback Australia.

Press Release here