Skip to main content

Untitled (The Art Book)

Ongoing series of collages produced by cutting up pages in Phaidon’s ‘The Art Book’ and reassembling them to create new representations of an alternative art history.

The Art Book was first published in 1994 as the first ever fully-illustrated art dictionary. It presents an abundance of famous, varied and colourful images by 500 of the ‘greatest’ artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Only a tiny percentage of these artists were women.

In these collages, I take all the representations of women by male artists throughout history, and re-present them with autonomy to address the power imbalance.

L M Lauren McLaughlin

Still Waiting to be Held

Madonna as a Young Mum

A Conflict of Interests

Join Axis

We support artists

Funding, visibility, connection and practical help. 

Membership includes £15 million of Public Liability Insurance!

Axis is an independent charity, funded by our members. 
Become a Member

OPEN: £50,000 directly to artists.

Axis Artist Awards 2026

The Axis Artist Awards support artists to develop their practice, test ideas, make work and keep going. 

Learn more