Whitechapel Gallery & FRAME London Partnered Edition: Katy Moran
Katy Moran: Magritte mornings (2021)
We were honoured to collaborate with our friends at the Whitechapel Gallery on a new edition with Katy Moran. Magritte mornings, 2021 has been created especially for the gallery to accompany the exhibition Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, 19 May – 29 Aug 2021.
Katy Moran
Magritte mornings, 2021
Acrylic paint on digital pigment print, with collage on Somerset Velvet paper, 330gsm, in Artist’s frame
Edition of 17, signed and numbered
61.5 x 54.7 x 4.5 cm [framed]
— Launch price: £1200 inc VAT
— Members' price: £1080
Buy the edition on the Whitechapel Gallery website
About the edition
Moran often crops or paints on top of found pictures, and incorporates both frame and support in a kind of collage process. She cuts larger canvases down to smaller ones, as a way to zero in on specific areas, finding new paintings within her work and blurring the boundaries of where a painting begins and ends.
In a similar way, for her edition, Moran starts with a print of the existing painting (itself painted on top of a found picture) and adds a collage element. Using her body part, she applies an approximate version of the blue shape found in the original painting, in thick acrylic paint . This impasto ‘print’ is a playful and direct interpretation of the printing process, whilst lending the work a physicality, found in her paintings.
About the frame
Moran has incorporated a frame into the work, using traditional materials in a sculptural way. She inverts the wooden frame profile, so that the edges, which would ordinarily overlap the image, face outwards. A linen-wrapped window mount, slopes downwards towards the work. This rearrangement of materials is a nod to her use of framing as a device to include, isolate or expand elements within her paintings. Special thanks to Rob Stokes on the Frame team for his incredible work and craftsmanship.