Katy Moran

Katy Moran has generously produced Yellow Beach and Moonbeam, 2023, a limited edition artwork to celebrate 30 years of Tate St Ives in summer 2023. Moran has played an important part in Tate St Ives history. Her work, Lady Things, 2009, is held in the Tate collection and is included in the collection display Modern Art and St Ives.

Moran, whose recent practice includes working onto found framed paintings, has chosen to use one of her own existing paintings as a starting point for her limited edition for Tate. Her original painting including the frame was photographed and reproduced as a print which Moran worked on top of, applying fresh layers of paint in areas and leaving the image of the original exposed in others. Working closely with the character of original painting, Moran’s experimentation has created new collisions of forms, colours and textures which are suggestive of a Cornwall beachscape. This new work has been scanned and produced as a print with the addition of a collaged element. The decision to have the frame as part of the image is in keeping with Moran’s approach to painting. To Moran, the frame presents an opportunity to expand outwards with her energetic mark making and explore the impact that the form of the frame brings to the work.

Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and comes unframed. Prices of the artwork are liable to change. As a limited edition sells out, prices of the artwork are subject to increase and the price will be clearly indicated.

• Artist Katy Moran
• Artwork Yellow Beach and Moonbeam
• Dimensions 58.5 x 70.5 cm
• Material Digital pigment print with collage on Somerset velvet paper
• Edition Edition of 80, signed and numbered on the back
• Date of work 2023

Katy Moran’s (b. 1975, Manchester, UK) paintings reflect an intuitive responsive working process: shifting or rotating the canvas while painting, reworking textures, and reconsidering the shapes and figures that emerge. With this approach, her work conveys a deliberate tension between materiality and subject. Moran often adds collage to her paintings, sometimes in combination with body prints, and welcomes the surprise elements that unfold. She doesn’t plan what she is going to paint and remains open to unplanned occurrences.

Selected solo exhibitions include Station Gallery, Melbourne, (2023); Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, (2022); Sperone Westwater, New York, (2019); Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, London (2015); the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2013); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2010); Tate St. Ives (2009); and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2008). Selected group exhibitions include, Sim-Smith, curated by Russell Tovey, London, (2022); Sperone Westwater, New York, (2021); Tate St. Ives (2018); Aspen Art Museum (2015); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); SFMOMA (2012); and Tate Britain, London (2008). Her work is included in public and private collections including Arts Council Collection, London; David Roberts Art Foundation; Government Art Collection, London; The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Royal College of Art, London; Tate; SFMOMA; and Walker Art Center; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; and Zabludowicz Collection. She lives and works in Hertfordshire, UK.