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Emily

Moir

My practice explores the relationships between ecology, geology, climate, and landscape through sculpture and installation. Working in response to the environments of Scotland, I am interested in the forces that shape the land over time—erosion, growth, decay, movement, and transformation—and how these processes connect us to place. Much of my work begins outdoors through walking, observing, collecting, and recording. These activities become forms of research, allowing me to engage directly with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world. Rather than representing landscape, my installations seek to evoke its physical presence, energy, and continual state of change. Using found, natural, and constructed materials, I create sculptural works that encourage contemplation, movement, and sensory engagement. Layers, textures, and forms emerge through processes that echo those found in nature, reflecting cycles of accumulation, fragmentation, and renewal. The work often exists between permanence and impermanence, mirroring the fragility of ecological systems and the vast timescales of geological change. At the heart of my practice is a fascination with our relationship to the natural world and a desire to foster deeper connections with the environments we inhabit. Through sculpture and installation, I create spaces that invite reflection on landscape as an active, living presence—one that holds memory, responds to climate, and continually shapes both itself and those who move through it.

Disciplines: Installation

Location: Galashiels

Materials: Found
My practice explores the relationships between ecology, geology, climate, and landscape through sculpture and installation. Working in response to the environments of Scotland, I am interested in the forces that shape the land over time—erosion, growth, decay, movement, and transformation—and how these processes connect us to place. Much of my work begins outdoors through walking, observing, collecting, and recording. These activities become forms of research, allowing me to engage directly with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world. Rather than representing landscape, my installations seek to evoke its physical presence, energy, and continual state of change. Using found, natural, and constructed materials, I create sculptural works that encourage contemplation, movement, and sensory engagement. Layers, textures, and forms emerge through processes that echo those found in nature, reflecting cycles of accumulation, fragmentation, and renewal. The work often exists between permanence and impermanence, mirroring the fragility of ecological systems and the vast timescales of geological change. At the heart of my practice is a fascination with our relationship to the natural world and a desire to foster deeper connections with the environments we inhabit. Through sculpture and installation, I create spaces that invite reflection on landscape as an active, living presence—one that holds memory, responds to climate, and continually shapes both itself and those who move through it.

Previous Experience

2026 SSA Members group show, RSA, Edinburgh 2024. WILD LINES Exhibition with Anna King and Caroline Mordue, Little Art Hub Galashiels Studio Club Group Show, Old Gala House Tutor Storytelling Visual Arts Workshop with produced book, Birkhill House CIC Tutor Foraged Still Life Art Workshop, Transform Arts CIC Life Drawing Tutor, Heriot Watt, Scottish Borders Campus Vegware ‘Gallery Cup’ finalist 2023 Art Hikes, Hike and Bike Hub, Galashiels Tutor Natural Pigment Workshop, Birkhill House CIC, Earlston, Scottish Borders Founded A Pocketful Of Poses drawing club, Scottish Borders Pecha Kucha Talk, CABN, Macarts, Galashiels 2006 BA Honours Fine Art, Sculpture 2:1, Gray’s School of Art, RGU, Aberdeen

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