Jaguar Nights 2008
acrylic on canvas and board in 2 parts
46 x 38cm
32.7 x 25.2cm
Katy Moran
Tate St Ives Summer Season 2009
16 May – 27 September 2009
Katy Moran (b 1975, UK) is the seventh artist to emerge from the current Tate St Ives Artist Residency programme. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, London, Moran has been gaining a strong reputation internationally after shows in London, New York and San Francisco. Her lyrical, fluid paintings sit somewhere between figuration and abstraction, appearing both startlingly fresh whilst at the same time calling to mind various painterly references from the last 200 years. Often based on fragments of found images drawn from an eclectic range of sources, her works evolve out of the process of painting itself. The gestural brushmarks and plasticity of the medium are fore-grounded, giving the canvases a vigorous, unstable and dynamic quality.
Photo: Ranald Mckechnie © Tate
The Tate St Ives Artist Residency programme began in April 2003 and provides artists with a studio, residency fee, materials costs and curatorial support to assist the development of their professional practice.
Based at one of the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives – formerly occupied by Borlase Smart, Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron – the programme is designed to support and develop emerging talent, giving participants an exciting opportunity to realise new aspirations for their work.
The prestigious programme provides a lasting legacy for the artists involved, with each residency culminating with an exhibition at Tate St Ives and an accompanying publication. View Artists in Residence.
Katy Moran's work will be on display at Tate St Ives during the Summer Season of Exhibitions 2009 (16 May – 27 September), alongside displays from Alfred Wallis, Lucie Rie, Barbara Hepworth, Lawrence Weiner, Carol Bove and Bojan Sarcevic.
We are not currently taking applications
This project is supported by Arts Council South West and Tate St Ives Members