Kate Shaw
Through dreamlike layers of poured acrylic, Kate Shaw reconstructs landscapes not as static scenery, but as psychological terrains shaped by both environmental reality and cultural longing
Kate Shaw is an Australian painter whose works are inspired by nature. Her process begins by pouring acrylic paint onto images of idyllic landscapes and then continuing to enhance them with colours and detail. Deeply connected to both metaphysical and material world, Shaw seeks to express her concern on the status of humankind and the way we coexist with nature. Something poetic radiates from the sea of colour in her work, sending a message to the viewer that is necessary to look beyond the obvious and into the hidden. Although colours are displayed in a free flow, there is precise structure underneath.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo exhibitions include Turner Galleries, Perth (2015), PointB, New York, (2014), Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2014), ART 14, London (2014), The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong (2014), Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria (2014), Auckland Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney (2011) and Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (2011). Recent group exhibitions include Art15, London (2015), Viscopy John Fries Memorial Prize, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney (2012), Blindside, Melbourne (2012), UQ Museum, Queensland, (2011) and KIAF, Seoul, Korea (2011).
EDUCATION:
BA in Fine Art from the RMIT University in Melbourne and studied at the Museum Studies at Deakin University
Shaw lives and works in Melbourne.
“My work reinterprets notions of what constitutes landscape painting, both within an art history context and a contemporary social context, reflecting upon the contradiction between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it.”
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