Lauren Goldie

Biography

Lauren Goldie is an artist and practice-based researcher exploring how artistic practice might imagine encounters with asteroids beyond instrumental frameworks that reduce extraterrestrial matter to a calculable resource. Responding to the intensification of sample-return missions, off-world mining and science-fiction imaginaries of extraction, her research explores alternative ways of encountering asteroid materiality through material experimentation and speculative worldbuilding. Drawing on Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s critique of instrumental rationality, the research considers moments of material resistance, such as the unexpected behaviour of asteroid Bennu during NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, as openings towards less extractive understandings of celestial matter. Her methodology combines analogue casting with ecologically conscious binders, hard-surface concept drawing, scale modelling and pre-CGI science-fiction approaches to reimagine asteroid samples and their carriers as sensory and speculative tools. In doing so, the research develops a transferable artistic methodology for expanding cultural imaginaries of extraterrestrial matter beyond resource-oriented futures and towards more animate, non-extractive modes of encounter.


Lauren’s research has been supported by residencies including Planetary Uncommons at Politecnico di Milano (2025) and the Ecofutures Digital Residency with Videotage, Hong Kong (2025). She is a recipient of the Graduate Art Prize, the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship and the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at The Muse Gallery, Bankside Artist Space and Winchester Gallery, and in group exhibitions at venues including Three Highgate Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Modern, as well as internationally in China and Latvia.