Lucy Mclauchlan
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Lucy Mclauchlan is a contemporary artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 from Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England. She is part of the "Beat 13!" collective and editions of her work sell on eBay, where she is a featured artist.

She works with markers
Marker pen
thumb|MarkerA marker pen, marking pen, felt-tip pen, flow or marker, is a pen which has its own ink-source, and usually a tip made of a porous, pressed fibres; such as felt or nylon.-Permanent marker:...

, pen or paint, in black & white, on surfaces as varied as paper, motor vehicles and buildings. Her work features recurring motifs, one of which is bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s and faces. Her work is usually in mono tone or with basic colours such as red.

Her work has appeared in magazines including Hidden Tracks, Hand to Eye, Creative Review
Creative Review
Creative Review is a monthly magazine targeted on the commercial arts and design scene. Creative Review has a circulation of around 20,000 readers. In general it focuses content on media originating in United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, showcasing some of the best contemporary...

, Graphic International, DPM, Graphic Britain, IdN magazine, Modart, Relax and Plus81.
In 2001, she and Beat 13! had an exhibition at the Horse Hospital
Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital is an arts venue in central London, England, which caters for literary and spoken word events, underground film and avantgarde media screenings, and visual art exhibitions...

 arts venue in central London. Her first solo London show, Expressive Deviant Phonology, ran from December 2007-January 2008, at LAZ.inc in Soho.

Her work has also featured in other galleries in Europe, Japan and Australia.

In July 2010, she painted three multi-storey birds on Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham Central Library is the main public library in Birmingham, England, and the largest non-national library in Europe. It is managed by Birmingham City Council...

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