Laurie Graduated from Kingston last Summer and has been working on a range exciting projects since. He has come back to Brighton, which he described as a good liberal foundation for his creativity “its such a liberal place that I’m constantly with people who are interested in social change and cultural issue”
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He has most recently been working on a follow up of a Zene that he produced for his final year, entitled “28 Days Later”, that focused on the transitional period of time when refugees come to the UK and ascertain refugee status. He used lino prints to represent the humanitarian crisis and explore the “weird transitional period” where a displaced person has “28 days to sort their lives out, before their funding gets cut”.
He explained that as a creative, he is interested in taking inaccessible, jargon-heavy, academic research and turning it into something visual “making research go further”. Today he has been making a follow up of this Zene to “make people realise that refugees don’t leave by choice.”
He said that he has “always thought the most important thing about illustration is the communication of an idea”, which he is using to be political. Words are very important in Laurie’s peices, “whilst lots of illustrators focus on making handsome images, the thing that I spend the longest on is writing the metaphor”.
