Can we interpret or understand the landscape as a complete narrative? Our view of our external reality appears seemingly fragmented having limited access only to the parts of the whole. Undoubtedly there is an ambivalent relationship between what exists in the natural world and what is manifested through artificial representation. Kate Shaw’s Liquefaction exhibition 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. 

​Melissa Bianca Amore, curator, writer, art critic 2011