Wilderness of Mirrors, solo exhibition Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney, November 2011

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.

Contro Natura, acrylic and resin on board, 120cm x 240cm, 2011

Projections on William Jolly Bridge Brisbane, December 2011 Commissioned by the Museum of Brisbane

Aboreal 26 October – 15 December 2011

Curators: Rhonda Davis and Andrew Simpson

Macquarie University Museum, NSW

Arboreal explores the way trees are more than just biochemical entities but living cultures within their own right and capable of collecting narratives of historical and contemporary importance. The exhibition designed as vignettes, will incorporate the indoor museum space with that of the outdoor Arboretum museum to engage viewers with the different ways we understand and interact with nature

Taking a social history view of art, tree narratives, which have touched diverse and connected themes of exploration, colonialism, exploitation, environmental degradation and indigenous sacred sites and knowledge, are of vital importance to our current understanding of the environmental crisis we now all face.

The changing depiction of the tree over the historical period will be explored in relation to the changing views about national identity. In the current climate we feel contemporary artists have extended the dialogue to make us aware of the importance of protection to safe-guard trees as sacred eco-spiritual objects which is of contemporary socio-political relevance. The exhibition will comprise a variety of media including painting, photography, holography, video and installation art.

Modular Mind, acrylic and resin on board, 2 panels, 90cm x 120cm 2011

Seeing to a Distance: single channel video from Australia

2-26 August 2011

Level 17 Artspace, Melbourne

Seeing to a distance: Single Channel Video Work From Australia, is the largest exhibition to showcase pivotal video art from Australia, within an innovative curatorial concept: to present a diverse selection of 24 new digital videos, on 24 retro Cathode Ray Tube televisions. ARTISTS: JANET BURCHILL & JENNIFER McCAMLEY, PETER BURKE, LISA DETHRIDGE, BHAVANI G.S, PASCALE GOMES-McNABB, STEPHEN HALEY, ROBIN HELY, LILY HIBBERD, LARISSA HJORTH, LOU HUBBARD, DANIUS KESMINAS, NATASHA JOHNS-MESSENGER, LARESA KOSLOFF, DAVID LANS & WARLAYIRTI ARTISTS, HELEN MARCOU & QUINCY McLEAN, AMANDA MORGAN, JAMES MORGAN, MARY LOU PAVLOVIC, DAVID SIMPKIN, KATE SHAW, ELLA & GREG STEHLE, HARRIET TURNBULL, & JAMES VERDON.

The Spectator from kate shaw on Vimeo.

KIAF Soeul 22-26th September 2011

Coex Convention Centre, Soeul, Korea

Silver Morning, Acrylic and resin on board, 60cm x 180cm, 2011

Liquefaction

solo exhibition 14 July – 13 August 2011

Nellie Castan Gallery

Liquefaction, acrylic and resin on board, 120cm x 300cm, 2011

New Psychedelia

The University of Queensland Art Museum

7 May – 3 July 2011

In recent years psychedelic ideas and aesthetics have made a notable return to contemporary art. The current influence of psychedelia has developed in response to the growing impact of global capital and technology on daily life. New Psychedelia presents a range of contemporary Australian artworks that display psychedelic influences and strategies for addressing the themes of consciousness, capitalism and technology. The exhibition will feature existing artworks alongside new site-specific works commissioned for the exhibition. Sebastian Moody, Curator

Ecology, acrylic and resin on board, 65cm x 75cm, 2010. Collection of UQ Museum

Together in Harmony

Korea Foundation Culture Centre, Seoul Korea

27th April – 19th May

2 exhibitions in Seoul, Korea to celebrate’50 years of Friendship Between Australia and Korea’.The exhibition “Together in Harmony for 50 years” at the Noori and Arum gallery in the Korea Foundation Culture Centre in Seoul, Korea opens 4 -7pm Friday 29th April 2011. The exhibition in the “Bom” gallery in Chongdamdong, Seoul’s most prominent art precinct,opens on the 3rd May 2011. Both exhibitions are organized by the Australian Embassy in Korea and KWASS, the Korean Women’s Art Society in Sydney and financially supported by the Australian Embassy in Seoul.

 Noble Ruin, acrylic  and resin on board, 2010

February 2010, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane

Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

Location:
Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY11231
Subway: Carroll Street, F / G (President / Smith exit)

Irrational Geographic

solo exhibition Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney

4-21 November 2010 OPENING Thursday 4th November

2010 Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award

Finalist

Exhibition 1            Monday 9 August – Friday 20 August Exhibition 2            Monday 23 August – Friday 3 September Exhibition Final     Monday 6 September – Friday 24 September

Held at the Renzo Piano designed RBS Tower on Philip St,Sydney

12th – 30th September I stole it I borrowed it I broke curated by Natalia Mount, Anne Percoco, Edward Schexnayder, Kate Shaw, Eve K.Tremblay

Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, 29 Orchard St, New York

26th August – 7 September Room I and Room II Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St Long Island City, New York

21 August – 18 September Lost in painting curated by Olivia Poloni, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

Lost in painting is an exhibition exploring contemporary Australian painting by artists from Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Nellie Castan Gallery. Embracing painting’s possibilities, the pursuit of the artists in this exhibition is to continue the ongoing debates over the practice of painting and its location within contemporary art.

Chris Bond, Craig Easton, Kate Shaw, Louise Paramor, Megan Walch, Giles Alexander, Natasha Bieniek, Marian Drew, Vincent Fantauzzo, Victoria Reichelt

4-8 August Melbourne Art Fair, at stockrooms for Sullivan and Strumpf and Ryan Renshaw Gallery

July 8-31 Phosphorescent solo exhibition Nellie Castan Gallery

10 June – 27 June Inhabit Fiesta Brisbane

UAP Spencer Lane Commission

Spencer Lane is one of the first laneways selected for reactivation through the Brisbane City Council’s Inhabit/Small Spaces program, designed to transform overlooked and forgotten spaces in the CBD through creative artworks and installations.

Urban Art Projects worked with Melbourne artist Kate Shaw to translate her painting practice into a large scale outdoor wall artwork for Spencer Lane, which is also earmarked for private development with a Laneway Bar. More information at Marker

Saturday June 26th 4pm

Lumen Video Art Festival

at Atlantic Salt Stanton Island, New York

Salt Mash Salty Mash takes the surrealist tactic of the ‘exquisite corpse’ into the realm of contemporary video.  Flux Factory artists Man Bartlett, Elizabeth Larison, Jaime Iglehart, and Kate Shaw, employ creative sabotage on each others’ original salt themed works.

24 February – 13 March

Spiling Twilight solo exhibition, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane

www.ryanrenshaw.com.au

Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW

UAP Public Art Commission  Launched June 2010

For the Brisbane City Council, Spencer Lane www.uap.com.au

http://uapmarker.com.au/2010/02/26/spilling-twilight-kate-shaw/

April – September

Residency Flux Factory, New York www.fluxfactory.org

and Residency Unlimited, supported by Arts Victoria

www.residencyunlimited.org

Upcoming: July

solo exhibition, Nellie Castan Gallery Melbourne, www.nelliecastangallery.com

November

solo exhibition, Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney www.ssfa.com.au

Previously:

24 February – 13 March

Spiling Twilight solo exhibition, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane

www.ryanrenshaw.com.au

January

solo exhibition, 212 Projects, New York www.2onetwo.com

24 Hour Contemporary Artspace, Darwin

Meridian solo exhibition, Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney

30 July – 22 August

Underground Sun solo exhibition, Nellie Castan Gallery

Artscape ABC TV 10pm 28 July and on ABC2 2 August 2009

May 1-3

Auckland Art Fair http://www.aucklandartfair.co.nz/

February 3 – 22

SSFA09 gallery artists, Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney www.ssfa.com.au

February 20-22

Sustainable Living Festival Federation Square Melbourne http://www.slf.org.au/festival/

Finalist, Salon DeRefuse, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney

Finalist, Tattersalls Art Prize, Brisbane

August 12 – August 30 Drifter solo exhibition Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane www.ryanrenshaw.com.au

30 July – 1 August  Melbourne Art Fair with Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney   http://www.artfair.com.au/

20 June – 26 July Visitant 24 hrART, Darwin www.24hrart.org.au

May/June 2008  Residency 24 hrARt NT Centre for Contemporary Art

15 April – 4 May 2008  Redux solo exhibition Sullivan and Strumpf Sydney www.ssfa.com.au

January 2008 Singular group exhibition Luxe Gallery New York www.luxegallery.net

8 December 2006 – 7 January 2007

Alluvial Gallery, Bendigo

29 May – 17 June 2007

Hell and Highwater catalogue

Luxe Gallery, New York

12 September – 7 October 2006

Pattern recognition catalogue

Spacement Gallery, Melbourne

20 July – 5 August 2006