Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Afro-Caribbean / Mixed
- Experience Level: Emerging
- Field of Work: Documentary, Commercials, Music Videos, and Other
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Directing Music Videos/Commercials, Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material, For-Hire Work, and Shadowing
- Authorized to work in the USA?: No
- Contact Information: slonemcgowan@gmail.com
- Link: https://slonemcgowan.com/
- Link 2: https://www.instagram.com/slonemcgowan/
- Link 3: https://vimeo.com/slonemcg
Bio
A Toronto based Jamaican-Canadian artist.
Personal work explores popular culture, technology, and public policy. Examining ideas of consumerism, consumption as cause and cure to suffering, nostalgia, contemporary idolatry, and class inequality – it works to poke fun at how value is assigned and maintained, and primarily draws on the experience of spending his formative years in Kingston, Jamaica.
This personal practice extends into professional work as a creative and freelance director/ DoP with notable commissions including work for Nissan, Kids Help Phone, Canadian Tire, Warner Music Mexico, the City of Toronto, and PRIDE Toronto.
Major influences include the work of Annelise Fleischman, Eduardo Paolozzi, Fernand Leger, Jung, Lichtenstein, Mondrian, Stanislav Grof, the Superflat and Neo Cubism movements, and all the candy and media he consumed as a kid.