Lauma Muižarāja
Helen Scott Lidgett Award
2026
Lauma Muižarāja works accross mixed media asseblage, installation and text. Using found object, image, beauty and food products, as well as various craft materials, her assemblages serve as an homage to the seemingly unserious and insignificant. Working resourcefully and using humble, fragile materials, she searches for ways that the previously overlooked objects and scraps could hold entire compositions. Lauma has a highly intuitive approach to her work and often employs symbolism from synchronicities that occur in her own life, asking the question “can anything really be considered insignificant, an accident or a coincidence?”.
Lauma Muižarāja is a graduate of MA POST (Latvian Art Academy) and got her undergraduate degree in Digital Arts Computing, (Goldsmiths University, London) with a Bachelor’s in computer science. Since 2019 she’s participated in several group shows in Latvia and abroad, and had her first solo exhibition in Latvia, in 2023. Lauma is a finalist of Linstow Award 2025, a recipient of the Helen Scott Lidgett Award 2025/6 and her work has been included in multiple private collections.
Helen Scott Lidgett Award
The Helen Scott Lidgett Award is a partnership between Acme, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), Art Academy of Latvia and the family of Helen Scott Lidgett. Aiming to provide a bridge between art school and professional practice, the award includes a generous bursary, rent-free studio space and a mentoring programme. Recipients of Acme’s Early Career Awards Programme work from shared studios in order to encourage an environment of peer support and critical dialogue.
