Laurie-Rae Chamberlain (born 1950), whose name is sometimes styled as Laurie Rae Chamberlain, is a color Xerox artist and graphic designer from Great Britain best known for his work on music album, magazine, and book covers.[1][2][3][4][5] He was active in the British art and fashion world during the mid-1970s and 1980s before falling out of public life.[2][3][4][6]

Chamberlain is a graduate of the Royal College of Art.[4] An early adopter of the color Xerox art form, he exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the late 1970s and the Biennial of European Graphic Arts in the early 1980s.[7][8][9] He even served as an informal ambassador for color xerography, doing a live demonstration for the BBC in 1982 and publishing a book called Zen and the Art of Color Xerography the same year.[10][11]

More recently, his work was included in a retrospective exhibition on xerography at Firstsite in 2013, as well as part of a group show on 20th-century British performance, music and graphic design in 2019.[12][13][14][15] Prints by Chamberlain are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1][16][17] His artwork also appears on the covers of a 1979 eponymous album by the Flying Lizards and a 1981 album by This Heat, and in the video of the song Zerox, by Adam and the Ants, stills of which appeared on the sleeve for the single Cartrouble.[4][18][19][20][21][6]

Chamberlain also filmed early gigs and rehearsals by the Ants in 1977–1978 on silent 8mm film which were later edited into a short film which circulated among Ant's fans from the 1980s onwards under the title Jackson Pollack.[citation needed]

In addition to his Xerox art work, Chamberlain competed in the Alternative Miss World contest in 1975 and served as a gossip columnist and fashion editor of the International Times in 1977.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Laurie Rae Chamberlain". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  2. ^ a b Walker, John A. (2006). "Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier in Art" (PDF). Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification: 22–24.
  3. ^ a b "Laurie-Rae Chamberlain". British Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  4. ^ a b c d e Mulholland, Neil (2017). The cultural devolution : art in Britain in the late twentieth century (1st ed.). London. ISBN 978-1-315-19831-6. OCLC 1003888943.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Chamberlain, Laurie (1982). "cover xerography". New Scientist. 94 (1301): cover – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b Snapes, Laura (2016-07-14). "No One's More Punk than Vivien Goldman". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  7. ^ Rose, Cynthia (1999-10-21). "British Talent On Display At New Houston Gallery". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  8. ^ POELL (1992). Entwürfe Für Den Alltag Typografie Grafik-Design Art Direction (in German). Basel: Springer Basel AG. p. 170. ISBN 978-3-0348-6211-0. OCLC 1250076240.
  9. ^ "Record shot from Laurie Rae Chamberlain exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1978., I.C.A., 12 July - 6 August 1978". Tate Images. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  10. ^ BBC Archive (2017-11-29). "#OTD 1982: Laurie Rae Chamberlain demonstrated xerography art (made using a photocopier) to Nicky Picasso, on Riverside". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  11. ^ Januszczak, Waldemar (1982). "Zen and the Art of Color Xerography". New Scientist. 96 (1334): 590 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Nairne, Eleanor (2014-01-03). "Xerography". Frieze. No. 160. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  13. ^ "The Secret Role That Copy Machines Have Played In Modern Art". Gizmodo Australia. 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  14. ^ "Group Show "Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus" with Stephen Willats". Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  15. ^ "Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus". www.nottinghamcontemporary.org. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  16. ^ "Object: Year of the Diamond". The British Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  17. ^ "Going on the First Train Tomorrow | Chamberlain". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. 1979. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  18. ^ Hamsley, David (2015). To disco, with love : the records that defined an era. New York. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-250-06845-3. OCLC 898419060.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  19. ^ Apilianty, Neny; Ramadhan, Mochammad Sigit (2018-12-01). "Pengaplikasian Teknik Xerography Image Transfer Pada Material Tekstil". EProceedings of Art & Design (in Indonesian). 5 (3). doi:10.25124/eoe.v5i3.7847 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISSN 2355-9349.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
  20. ^ Breznikar, Klemen (2019-03-29). "This Heat interview Charles Hayward". It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  21. ^ Cuzner, Russell (2016-02-02). "Why Study Art When You Can Make It: The Strange World Of… This Heat". The Quietus. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
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