Since 1999 Beat13 have produced art, music, events and happenings.
Beginning life as a website showcasing a collective of creators in Birmingham, the activities orbiting artist Lucy McLauchlan and audio-visualist Matt Watkins have developed exhibitions, murals, installations, AV shows, films, a gallery, workshops and international collaborations.
A fiercely independent trailblazer, Lucy McLauchlan’s monochromatic large-scale murals have shown internationally her collaborators list including Gorillaz, Banksy's Pictures on Walls, the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, BLK/MRKT Gallery, the Eclectic Gallery in Tokyo, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, I-D, Vogue, Relax and Lodown magazines, a long-running relationship with Studio Cromie’s Famé Festival (Grottaglie, Italy); exhibitions in San Fransisco and Los Angeles; See No Evil (Bristol, UK); projects with Lazarides Gallery in London; The New Art Gallery Walsall and close relationships with the Keep-A-Breast foundation (US).
Matt worked with Jamie Hewlett for 10 years as designer/animator on the virtual-band Gorillaz developing the award-winning website, animations and live show visuals.
Matt’s experimental music/AV project is Mothwasp; stark, oblique, distorted and serendipitous; live performances invariably involve near-defunct analogue AV technologies, field recordings, homemade electronics and sensory barrage. Mothwasp have performed during film festivals such as Animated Dreams/Black Nights (Estonia) Flatpack (UK) and at music festivals such as Supersonic and Supernormal (UK)