Laurie-Rae Chamberlain (born 1950), whose name is sometimes styled as Laurie Rae Chamberlain, is a color

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ist and

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from

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best known for his work on music album, magazine, and book covers. He was active in the British art and fashion world during the mid-1970s and 1980s before falling out of public life. Chamberlain is a graduate of the

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. An early adopter of the color Xerox art form, he exhibited at the

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in the late 1970s and the Biennial of European

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in the early 1980s. He even served as an informal ambassador for color xerography, doing a live demonstration for the

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in 1982 and publishing a book called ''Zen and the Art of Color Xerography'' the same year. More recently, his work was included in a retrospective exhibition on xerography at

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in 2013, as well as part of a group show on 20th-century British performance, music and graphic design in 2019. Prints by Chamberlain are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the

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, and the

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. His artwork also appears on the covers of a 1979 eponymous album by the

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and a 1981 album by

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, and in the video of the song Zerox, by Adam and the Ants, stills of which appeared on the sleeve for the single Cartrouble. 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.'' In addition to his Xerox art work, Chamberlain competed in the

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contest in 1975 and served as a

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and

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of the

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in 1977.

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