Kate Shaw, transfixed by nature's transformative power, creates paintings which collage together irregular forms of marbled paint to mold beautifully abstracted and imagined landscapes. Influenced by the earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods and hurricanes that have plagued our planet of late, Shaw’s work captures the imagined possibility of nature. Her landscapes have an illusionary and hallucinogenic colour palette where their very materiality mimics the forms and patterns of the natural environment.

Born in Melbourne 1969, Shaw completed a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts Honours (Painting) at RMIT University, Melbourne in 1994. Shaw, who was a 2011 and 2010 Wynne Prize Finalist, has been part of the 2011 New Psychedelia exhibition at the University of Queensland and featured in Together in Harmony at the Korean Cultural Centre in Seoul. Shaw has exhibited extensively throughout the Unites States where recent exhibitions included; Missing Link, Unlimited, New York (2010); I Stole it. I Borrowed it. I Broke it, Stephan Stoyanoy Gallery, New York (2010); Lumen, Atlantic Salt, New York (2010).