Lauchie Reid
Lauchie Reid (b. 1981) is an artist, illustrator and educator based in Hamilton, Ontario.
Founder of noted illustration and art collective Team Macho (2004 - ), Reid's art and design practice span all media and methodologies, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, publishing, animation, and printmaking. Team Macho's work is held in numerous private collections worldwide and their illustration clients include the Walrus, CBC, Macleans Magazine, Adidas, Reebok, The Barenaked Ladies, and many others across all forms of illustrated media.
Lauchie's solo works focus on combining the historical practices of western European image-making, primarily oil painting, metal point drawing, and plate printing. His interest in historical practices have led to an active participation with conservators and historical materials experts across the globe, allowing the work created to combine the best aspects of historically accurate and sustainable processes with the most up-to-date scientific understandings of material technology. Aesthetically and conceptually, these works echo this dichotomy in their content, incorporating uncanny visual elements and narratives informed as much by Hieronymous Bosch as they are by Brian Eno, and always including a combination of bygone techniques and cutting edge technology with the intention of situating the viewer in an uneasy space.
Lauchie is a tenured Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Illustration Program at OCAD University. In addition to program leadership and teaching, he sits in several areas of university governance and is a co-director of the OCAD U Sustainable Colour Lab, a research initiative aimed at the resurrection of "lost" techniques and materials from natural sources, with an aim of re-associating material practices with natural sources, instantiating a respectful relationship between artists and the land that they practice on, and a meaningful divestment from petroleum products and plastics.
Lauchie Reid (b. 1981) is an artist, illustrator and educator based in Hamilton, Ontario.
Founder of noted illustration and art collective Team Macho (2004 - ), Reid's art and design practice span all media and methodologies, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, publishing, animation, and printmaking. Team Macho's work is held in numerous private collections worldwide and their illustration clients include the Walrus, CBC, Macleans Magazine, Adidas, Reebok, The Barenaked Ladies, and many others across all forms of illustrated media.
Lauchie's solo works focus on combining the historical practices of western European image-making, primarily oil painting, metal point drawing, and plate printing. His interest in historical practices have led to an active participation with conservators and historical materials experts across the globe, allowing the work created to combine the best aspects of historically accurate and sustainable processes with the most up-to-date scientific understandings of material technology. Aesthetically and conceptually, these works echo this dichotomy in their content, incorporating uncanny visual elements and narratives informed as much by Hieronymous Bosch as they are by Brian Eno, and always including a combination of bygone techniques and cutting edge technology with the intention of situating the viewer in an uneasy space.
Lauchie is a tenured Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Illustration Program at OCAD University. In addition to program leadership and teaching, he sits in several areas of university governance and is a co-director of the OCAD U Sustainable Colour Lab, a research initiative aimed at the resurrection of "lost" techniques and materials from natural sources, with an aim of re-associating material practices with natural sources, instantiating a respectful relationship between artists and the land that they practice on, and a meaningful divestment from petroleum products and plastics.
