Whoever said developers aren't artistic hasn't met the Code Pharaoh.

In a typical digital agency there are creative types, tech types and a bunch of people in the middle. Creative people write, design, illustrate, and have great ideas. They're often considered to be the right brain folk. The studio balance is then logically restored by the left brains, the more technical, rational and structured types, you know the developers and programmers. But they're not so easily pigeon holed you know!!

Take Lachlann, he's our self proclaimed Code Pharaoh and he's not just a left brainer. Yes, he's part web developer but he's also part musician and part artist too. In fact, his penchant for absurd art (I'll tell you about his musical career some other time) was recently the focus of a rather striking and memorable art exhibition.

Lachlann was the first artist to exhibit at the brand new Super Club; an old Edinburgh Tyre factory that has been lovingly turned into a studio and exhibition space.

The exhibition, entitled Stealth Cowboy was named after a song by the "Legendary Stardust Cowboy - a rock and roll musician with a really weird outsider sound".

How does a developer with a science degree get involved in art?

I got curious so I asked Lachlann and here's what he had to say:

"I started making art when I studied computing science at Uni, it was a good past time to unwind from thinking about algorithms and logarithmic complexity."

"After I graduated I started making more and more works and that eventually led to people asking me to exhibit and contribute to various publications."

How do you create these images?

"I like to take found images from the internet and edit them using Photoshop to create weird pop art prints and animations."

"I also make lots of 'zines and booklets of my work, this exhibition is a bit of a retrospective of work I have created over the last few years."

"My artwork is absurd; I think that is the only way to describe it."

Lachlann has exhibited a few times over the last few years including a solo show in Glasgow and group shows in Edinburgh, New York and Savona. His animations were also short listed for two awards in last year's Fest Anca animation festival in Slovakia.

What's next on the art agenda for Lachlann?

"I have just completed some works for 'Atypica Mag' in Argentina and I'm currently working on some pieces for a 'zine being published in Austria. I also have some new animations in the pipeline which promise to be very silly."

I'm looking forward to it Lachlann!

And so it goes to show, you never can judge a book by its cover and you should never accuse a developer of only using their left brain.

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Check out more of Lachlann's work on Flickr and Vimeo.

Super Club have some interesting stuff in the pipeline too. Their next event is called 'Take me to your dealer' with artworks by Rick and Jamie McNeill. The Super Club Studio blog also comes highly recommended.