Kat Shaw is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies.
Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies!
As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment.
Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty.
Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture.
Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness.
We talked about:
How making art was a bridge to loving her body
Celebrating and glorifying real women’s bodies
The good old days of Facebook when it connected us to women around the world and didn’t censor women’s art
Nakedness
NIPPLES!
The way patriarchy drips into every area of our lives
Art and activism
Her Kat Walk where almost 60 women walked naked
Painting 113 women in under 6 weeks this year
ADHD, creativity and menopause
In the Extended Episode – only $3/month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
We dive deeper into:
Parenting our kids when they are in crisis and the toll it takes
Navigating body dysmorphia
Nipples
Women’s safety and the language around assault
ADHD
MASTERCLASS - Writing Nature and Magic with Lucy H. Pearce and Sarah Robinson May 28th 7pm on Zoom
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Resources
Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity – Girl God
Changing History into Herstory – Kat Shaw, Girl God
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