Lachlan Conn

Lachlan’s drawings and animated GIFs are put together with cheerful yet limited palettes, pleasing shapes and good humour. Working first with scrawls in a sketchbook then shaping and refining in Illustrator and Photoshop, Lachlan’s timeless 2D work takes inspiration from the colour and overprint of Risograph printing, Grug and Werner Herzog. He also makes comics, objects and music. Lachlan creates art in his Newcastle home studio, and studied printmaking, graphic design and sculpture at the University of Tasmania but dropped out to pursue an interest in making gig posters and ‘awful, inept noise-music’. His clients include The Lifted Brow, Thames & Hudson, Apple, and he has created murals for Jacky Winter Group HQ and Newcastle’s The All Story gallery and bookstore.