Lucie McLaughlin works as an artist, writer, researcher and facilitator, among other things, in a sector where people perform increasingly hybridised roles. Her practice focuses on expanded forms of writing, realised in publications, sound and performance readings. 

Her work has recently been published by Paper Visual Art, JOAN, Mirror Lamp Press, The Yellow Paper and Catalyst Arts Belfast. Her current research is based at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry where she is undertaking a collaborative PhD project with Kingston School of Art and technē. The research asks how particular tonalities expressing the atmosphere of place emerge through the generation of new forms of writing as artistic practice. 

The section of text that you might still be reading now should include more information about Lucie’s practice, but in trying to avoid the repetitive vocabulary that often empties these lines of any meaning, the text, instead, is falling apart. The hope is that some pieces will land in a restful place, a place that might, of course, be very loud. The club night, the day job, the cinema, the chip shop. Aside from the remains of acoustic architecture, there are images of washing on washing lines. The urge to describe something after you’ve stopped trying. The view from the train window. A woman in the gallery walking around with a notebook. She is filming the wall-mounted video on her phone. She is wearing a thin scarf and a severe haircut. I try to glance at her notebook over her shoulder, but I can’t read her writing. It’s maybe in shorthand, or the shapes of the letters are just moving too fast.       

contact: luciejmclaughlin@gmail.com