Kate Shaw maps an oneiric topography — a seductively saccharine dream world infused with the lingering trace of reality. The contours of her hills and mountains register as legible forms but the colour and texture draped across them is pure fantasy. Her landscapes beguile and transfix but they also impart a sense of disquietude. They anticipate possible futures and pre-empt the total defacement of the natural environment, envisaging a world embellished

with toxic spills and nuclear fallout. 

Catalogue essay Uncanny Valley Isobel Parker Phillip, 2015