Source Material
‘Source Material’ is a free exhibition open from 14th-30th of September at Morley Gallery, London (SE1 7HT) with a private view on Thursday 14th 6-8pm. It celebrates the results of the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship, an annual prize awarding two artists access to courses across Morley College, London. 22/23 winners Lauren Goldie and Eimhin Moran spent the year rethinking their materials and process to consider constructed, social and extraterrestrial landscapes.
Lauren Goldie’s work explores the value of objects orbiting outer space and critiques the economic and political incentives for extraterrestrial 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 illustrates an escalation of the waste issue and proves motivation for this form of expansion doesn’t entirely have an environmental or humanitarian agenda.
Lauren is a PhD student at Central Saint Martins, recipient of the 2023 Muse Residency and the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. She has exhibited in solo shows at the Bankside Artist Space and Winchester Gallery. Her group exhibitions include Youth, touring Beijing, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang China and IPBSZERO, a collaboration with CASS Faculty of Art and Whitechapel Gallery.
For the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship Eimhin Moran explores the rounded rectangle as a symbol of the sterility and standardisation that characterises our social, constructed and digital landscapes. This ubiquitous shape, with its rounded corners and rectilinear form, embodies simultaneously the unease of conformity and the comfort of familiarity. Through use of the ‘roundrect’ as motif, Eimhin questions the influence our environments have on our individuality and collective psyche.
Eimhin Moran is a London based artist working primarily in sculpture. Having originally trained in architecture and structural engineering, Eimhin finds interest in how we as people shape our environments and how those environments shape us in turn.
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