Lauren Goldie is a London based artist and MA graduate from Central Saint Martins. She is recipient of the 22/23 Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship, the 21/22 UAL UK/EU Postgraduate Award and winner of the 2022 Cecil Collins Memorial award.

She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Bankside Artist Space in London and the Winchester Gallery. Her numerous group exhibitions include Public Encounters at Dubulti Art Station in Latvia and IPBSZERO, a collaboration with CASS Faculty of Art and Whitechapel Gallery. She was honoured in 2017 with winning the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. Her research is astrophysical, exploring storytelling and the imagery to confront real, environmental issues.

Lauren’s current artworks explore the value of orbital objects in space. They critique the economic and political incentives for spatial expansion. 2022 was the first year a piece of manmade orbital debris hit a celestial body besides Earth, when it wasn’t intended to make contact. This not only illustrates an escalation of the issue but proves that the motivation for this form of expansion does not always have an environmental or humanitarian agenda. When thinking about the future we can easily be influenced by retro-nostalgia and past popular, cultural imaginings of what the future should look like. Contradicting the familiar 70’s glossy, plastic aesthetic, spatial expansion will likely rely on natural and harvestable materials. Her sculptures consider the future of resource mining. The forms are inspired by the moment industrial and organic meet. Textures and ribbing are included with reference to mining techniques. Materials are hybrids, specifically made to include resources that are valuable when mining in space.

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