Lucy McLauchlan makes site-responsive, large scale paintings & prints. Drawing inspiration from her immediate environment she allows it to inform and direct what is an intuitive and explorative process.
Her monochromatic murals cover the sides of houses and multi-stories throughout Europe, gigantic billboards in Guangzhou, gallerias of Japan, buildings in The Gambia, public gardens of London / Rome / Moscow, Italian water towers, Norwegian lighthouse, Detroit parking lot and abandoned NYC subway tunnels.
Originating from a DIY background, Lucy is co-founder of Beat13 with Matthew Watkins; established as an autonomous platform for self-initiated projects. Working closely together, Watkins has produced award-winning films revealing an intimate insight into Lucy’s practice; Tacit, Metropolis Art Prize, New York (2010); New Zealand, Flatpack Short Film Awards, UK (2018).
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Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Woodlands, Wastelands & Waterways The Burton Gallery & Museum, UK
2019 UNFOLD, Centrala, UK
2018 There Are Voices To Be Heard, Nelson Gallery, New Zealand
2015 Where Were You Before Now, Fluoescent Smogg, Barcelona
2014 Marking Shadows, Lazarides Gallery, London
2013 Holding onto Fragments of Past Memories, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2010 Together, Lazarides Rathbone, London
2009 All Of Us, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
2008 Restricted Freedom, FIFTY24SF, San Francisco
2007 Expressive Deviant Phonology, Lazarides Rathbone, London
2005 Before the Birds Stop Singing, Analogue Gallery, Edinburgh
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
2021 Vanguard - Bristol Street Art - the evolution of a global movement, MShed Museum Bristol, UK
2021 Beyond The Street, Southhampton Arts Centre, New York, US
2019 Wonder, The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, UK
2018 Home of Metal, Subliminal Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2017 Paradox, Tauranga Museum, New Zealand
2015 Catastrophe, StudioCromie, Italy
2014 Z Projects, Library Street Collective, Detroit, US
2014 Project M, UN Berlin, Germany
Permanent Collections:
V&A Museum London
British Government
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Library of Birmingham
Burton at Bideford Gallery and Museum
Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
Soho House, UK & West Hollywood
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Notable Publications:
Dial House by Lucy McLauchlan. Exitstencil Press (2022)
Juxtapoz Black & White by Evan Pricco. Gingko Press (2017)
Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie. Die Gestalten Verlag (2010)
Expressive Deviant Phonology by Lucy McLauchlan and Matthew Watkins. Lazarides (2008)
Blk/Mrkt Two: Gallery: v.2 by Blk/Mrkt Gallery. Die Gestalten Verlag (2007)
Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics by David Crow. AVA Publishing (2007)
Hidden Track: How Visual Culture Is Going Places by Di Ozesanmuseum Bamberg and Sven Ehmann. Gestalten (2005)
Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia Of Camouflage by Hardy Blechman and Alex Newman. Firefly Books Ltd (2004)
Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites by Julius Wiedemann. Taschen GmbH (2003)
Hand to Eye: Contemporary Illustration by Angus Hyland. Laurence King Publishing (2003)
GB: Graphic Britain by Patrick Burgoyne. Laurence King Publishing (2002)
“It is a welcome discovery to find the fluid curvilinear geometries of Lucy McLauchlan on the street - the monochrome palette genuine, the forms bursting with vitality. By coaxing graphic rhythms from the natural world and expressing them with her own gestural physicality her work has the power to bring the constructed city alive. And it does, without pretense.”
— STEVEN P. HARRINGTON. EDITOR IN CHIEF / BROOKLYN STREET ART