Shaun Green

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Age: 39
City: Fitzroy
Country: Australia

Joined: Oct 2009

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Shaun Green is a Melbourne based artist who had the misfortune to attend a well known university and partake in their creative writing class. He soon realised writing (note the emission of the word ‘creative’) can’t be taught. So he spent ten years in the music industry producing electronic music, running his own record label (prefabric8) and playing live, touring overseas. But it wasn’t all free coke and groupies. Once the eighties revival kicked in, he realised music was a commodity, like everything else – only he was old enough to remember the eighties. So he went back to his old love – writing. It’s still a commodity, but it takes longer to produce and hopefully its influence will outlast the ‘e’ rush and make the comedown harsh and cruel – as it should be.

Influences: Shakespeare, Kraftwerk, Robert Stone, Shostakovich, Baudelaire, René Magritte, Richard Ford, The Rolling Stones, Vincent Price, Robert Lowell, Yello, Philip Glass, Sylvia Plath, my thesaurus, Annie Proulx, David Bowie, John Carpenter, Arvo Pårt, Jackson Pollock, David Cronenberg, Thomas Pynchon, Stanley Kubrick, Brian Eno, Martin Heidegger, Andy Warhol, Oscar Wilde, Jean Paul Sartre, Joy Division, Allen Ginsberg, The Human League, Roland Barthes, A.D.Hope, André Breton, Miles Davis…