Printmaker Lindsey Moran specialises in exploring the relationship between printmaking and photography. Carrying her camera everywhere she goes, she is drawn to exploring the influence of light on both natural and man-made environments, with her black and white photographs forming the basis of her printmaking.
We first began working with Lindsey Moran in Spring 2021, when she participated in a group exhibition ‘Inner Space’ which featured artists that explore interior spaces. Lindsey travelled to Oxford for the opening of the show from Liverpool, bringing her camera with her. She instantly fell in love with the city, finding herself deeply inspired by the colleges and museums. She made a second body of work inspired by Oxford, which we exhibited at the end of last year.
She said at the time: ‘Following my first visit to the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in March I took the opportunity to visit some key landmarks in Oxford. I love education and architecture, so I was especially drawn to Oxford Museum of Natural History. It’s a striking example of Victorian neo-Gothic architecture and a building that was designed to educate and inform. A true place of awe and wonder; stunning architecture coupled with a creative curation of artefacts that draw onlookers through a wide range of fascinating vistas. Curious carvings, decorative pillars, and arches that frame incredible compositions; a building that breathes education through every aspect and a true temple for science.’
Her new collection returns once again to Oxford, exploring the city’s architectural marvels and collections held within the museum.
She is captivated by the shapes of the buildings in Oxford. The skies are framed by the dome of the Radcliffe Camera or the archway at the Taylorian. Lindsey has found herself especially drawn to Thunnus thynnus, the Blue Fin tuna skeleton, and its story. Housed at Oxford University’s Natural History Museum, this fish specimen was transported back in high seas, with the ship’s superstitious crew threatening to throw it overboard, believing it to be cursed, and a cause of the stormy weather. Lindsey’s print captures the haunting starkness of the bones that are the only remnant of an extraordinary journey the creature has made.
