KATE SHAW: WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS
Kate Shaw's
Wilderness of Mirrors is stimulated by the ubiquity of perception altering technology. Shaw intervenes the idea of 'naturalism' by an insertion of hyper real imagined colours into the landscape. In doing so, she questions the authenticity of perception, what the viewer receives from acute observation and what is induced by an imagined state of consciousness. Shaw has spent several months examining and playing spectator to our remote lands in Australia, including the Kimberlys and Arnhem Land which continue to feed her interest in examining the idea of landscape. Shaw's alternative reading of the land becomes a bizarre projection of a post-apocalyptic future-scape. Using the natural process as a loom, Shaw's technique somewhat mirrors nature's organic movement. Her paint pours create a strange magnetic tempo into a central gravitational vortex. The combination is both confronting and unnerving, creating beautiful imagery through a strange fragmentation of the natural.
