Sprawl

About Kate Shaw

With neon colours, pastels, and glitter, Australian artist Kate Show creates spectacular psychedelic landscapes. We may feel as if we have stumbled upon another planet, but these fantastical scenes are based on real locations; inspired by natural landscapes in the world around us. A stay in Iceland was the catalyst for many of Shaw’s works, including “Fjallkonan”, which is named after Iceland’s allegorical Lady of the Mountains. The fluorescent mountain range stretching out beyond a lake of surreal clarity is sublime and yet hostile, just like the volcanic landscape of the island itself. Shaw shines a light on our conflicted relationship with nature, in which we create and… Read more