Kate Shaw is a Melbourne-based artist who creates landscapes that are simultaneously sublime and toxic.
Formed out of ‘paint pours’ and collage techniques, her landscapes capture the transcendent beauty of nature; the swirls of acrylic paint, ink, glitters and powders mimic the flow of natural processes.
But underlying these psychedelic scenes are hints of pollution and artificiality, inducing anything from wonder to discomfort.
This intersection of creation and corruption in Kate Shaw’s alchemical creations teases out our conflicted relationship with nature – a relationship fraught with awe and fear, closeness and distance.
Kate Shaw was born in Sydney and currently lives/works between Melbourne and New York. She has held solo exhibitions in Australia, New York, Hong Kong, and London and group exhibitions in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Reykjavik, Auckland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
Images courtesy of Kate Shaw
Discover: www.kateshaw.org
