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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.
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[5] He was active in the British art and fashion world during the mid-1970s and 1980s before falling out of public life.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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[15] Prints by Chamberlain are in the collections of the
National Gallery of Australia , the
British Museum , and the
Victoria and Albert Museum .
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[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 .
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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.
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References
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"Laurie Rae Chamberlain" . National Gallery of Australia . Retrieved 2023-02-03 .
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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.
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"Laurie-Rae Chamberlain" . British Museum . Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
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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 . {{
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^ Chamberlain, Laurie (1982).
"cover xerography" . New Scientist . 94 (1301): cover – via Google Books.
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b Snapes, Laura (2016-07-14).
"No One's More Punk than Vivien Goldman" . Pitchfork . Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
^ Rose, Cynthia (1999-10-21).
"British Talent On Display At New Houston Gallery" . The Seattle Times . Retrieved 2023-02-07 .
^ 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 .
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"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 .
^ 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 .
^ Januszczak, Waldemar (1982).
"Zen and the Art of Color Xerography" . New Scientist . 96 (1334): 590 – via Google Books.
^ Nairne, Eleanor (2014-01-03).
"Xerography" . Frieze . No. 160.
ISSN
0962-0672 . Retrieved 2023-02-03 .
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"The Secret Role That Copy Machines Have Played In Modern Art" . Gizmodo Australia . 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2023-02-03 .
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"Group Show "Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus" with Stephen Willats" . Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff . Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
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"Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus" . www.nottinghamcontemporary.org . Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
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"Object: Year of the Diamond" . The British Museum . Retrieved 2023-02-03 .
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"Going on the First Train Tomorrow | Chamberlain" . Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections . 1979. Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
^ 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 . {{
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^ 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 . {{
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^ Breznikar, Klemen (2019-03-29).
"This Heat interview Charles Hayward" . It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine . Retrieved 2023-02-06 .
^ 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 .