For the past decade Shaun Leonardo’s practice has been fully engaged in the politics of race, identity and pervasive male violence in sports. A former football player himself, Leonardo explores various hyper-masculine figures, such as the sportsman or the superhero through performance, painting and drawing, creating works that seek to draw out or highlight the isolation or the violence associated with such masculine culture with a view to provide an alternative perspective and to carve out a space for healing. Formally, his practice plays with the idea of “documentation” transcending the notion through a use of video in his performance work not just to document the performances but in order to create a considered scripted video.