# Laurie-Rae Chamberlain

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**Laurie-Rae Chamberlain** (born 1950), whose name is sometimes styled as **Laurie Rae Chamberlain**, is a color [Xerox artist](/source/Xerox_art) and [graphic designer](/source/Graphic_designer) from [Great Britain](/source/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](/source/Royal_College_of_Art).[4] An early adopter of the color Xerox art form, he exhibited at the [Institute of Contemporary Arts](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Arts) in the late 1970s and the [Biennial](/source/Biennale) of European [Graphic Arts](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Retrospective) on xerography at [Firstsite](/source/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](/source/National_Gallery_of_Australia), the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), and the [Victoria and Albert Museum](/source/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum).[1][16][17] His artwork also appears on the [covers](/source/Album_cover) of a 1979 eponymous album by the [Flying Lizards](/source/The_Flying_Lizards) and a 1981 album by [This Heat](/source/Deceit_(album)), and in the video of the song [Zerox](/source/Zerox_(song)), by [Adam and the Ants](/source/Adam_and_the_Ants), stills of which appeared on the sleeve for the single [Cartrouble](/source/Cartrouble).[4][18][19][20][21][6]

Chamberlain also filmed early gigs and rehearsals by the Ants in 1977–1978 on silent [8mm film](/source/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](/source/Alternative_Miss_World) contest in 1975 and served as a [gossip columnist](/source/Gossip_columnist) and [fashion editor](/source/Fashion_editor) of the [International Times](/source/International_Times) in 1977.[4]

## References

1. ["Laurie Rae Chamberlain"](https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/19352/laurie-rae-chamberlain). *National Gallery of Australia*. Retrieved 2023-02-03.

1. Walker, John A. (2006). ["Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier in Art"](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/copy-this-a-historical-perspective-on-the-use.pdf?c=plag;idno=5240451.0001.003;format=pdf). *Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification*

1. ["Laurie-Rae Chamberlain"](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG196711). *British Museum*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. 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](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1003888943)

1. Chamberlain, Laurie (1982). ["cover xerography"](https://books.google.com/books?id=504iVZyopJ8C&dq=%22laurie+rae+chamberlain%22&pg=PA121). *New Scientist*. **94** (1301): cover. – via Google Books.

1. Snapes, Laura (2016-07-14). ["No One's More Punk than Vivien Goldman"](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1230-vivien-goldman/). *Pitchfork*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. Rose, Cynthia (1999-10-21). ["British Talent On Display At New Houston Gallery"](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19991021&slug=2990155). *The Seattle Times*. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

1. 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](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250076240)

1. ["Record shot from Laurie Rae Chamberlain exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1978., I.C.A., 12 July - 6 August 1978"](https://www.tate-images.com/preview.asp?item=M03041). *Tate Images*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. BBC Archive (2017-11-29). ["#OTD 1982: Laurie Rae Chamberlain demonstrated xerography art (made using a photocopier) to Nicky Picasso, on Riverside"](https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/935925118236274688?lang=en). *Twitter*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. Januszczak, Waldemar (1982). ["Zen and the Art of Color Xerography"](https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&dq=%22laurie+rae+chamberlain%22&pg=PA590). *New Scientist*. **96** (1334): 590. – via Google Books.

1. Nairne, Eleanor (2014-01-03). ["Xerography"](https://www.frieze.com/article/xerography). *Frieze*. No. 160. [ISSN 0962-0672](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0962-0672). Retrieved 2023-02-03.

1. ["The Secret Role That Copy Machines Have Played In Modern Art"](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/the-secret-role-that-copy-machines-have-played-in-modern-art/). *Gizmodo Australia*. 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2023-02-03.

1. ["Group Show "Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus" with Stephen Willats"](https://www.reinhardhauff.de/news/news-detail/group-show-still-undead-popular-culture-in-britain-beyond-the-bauhaus-with-stephen-willats-558). *Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. ["Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus"](https://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/undead-pop-culture-in-britain-beyond-the-bauhaus/). *www.nottinghamcontemporary.org*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. ["Object: Year of the Diamond"](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1984-1020-0-1-13). *The British Museum*. Retrieved 2023-02-03.

1. ["Going on the First Train Tomorrow | Chamberlain"](https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O550704/). *Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections*. 1979. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. 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](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898419060)

1. Apilianty, Neny & Ramadhan, Mochammad Sigit (2018-12-01). ["Pengaplikasian Teknik Xerography Image Transfer Pada Material Tekstil"](https://openlibrarypublications.telkomuniversity.ac.id/index.php/artdesign/article/view/7847) (in Indonesian). *EProceedings of Art & Design*. **5** (3). [doi:10.25124/eoe.v5i3.7847](https://doi.org/10.25124/eoe.v5i3.7847). [ISSN 2355-9349](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2355-9349)

1. Breznikar, Klemen (2019-03-29). ["This Heat interview Charles Hayward"](https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2019/03/this-heat-interview-charles-hayward.html). *It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

1. Cuzner, Russell (2016-02-02). ["Why Study Art When You Can Make It: The Strange World Of… This Heat"](https://thequietus.com/articles/19644-this-heat-interview). *The Quietus*. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

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