One of Mina Milk's captivating prints

In today’s dog-eat-dog world it can be hard to remember the intimacy of civility and artistry. Lazy Gramophone takes us back to the bare bones of creativity, showcasing some of Britain’s finest up-and-coming talent.

2003 saw the launch of an artistic collective of like-minded poets, wordsmiths, musicians and other talented souls from across the creative spectrum. Lazy Gramophone was formed with the aim of providing a platform and support to the diverse up-and-coming artists to help them gain exposure and showcase their work.

Although their services span production, events, publishing and consulting, the beauty of the group, from an outsider’s point of view, could be its total independence from the norm. For one it introduces the artists, writers and other wonderful people and actually opens up their work, inviting a passer-by to spend hours absorbing the ironic-novelty of untarnished creative folk. Another captivating element of the anti-brand is the pride taken in its growth and formation – there are links on the website to previous homepages and former artists allowing a view into the organic development which has taken place.

The Lazy Gramophone website is homage to all things beautiful; I could spend hours looking at the doodles and muses, photos and poems which it showcases. The artistic talent is at once curious and fantastic. Claudia Forsbrey makes art on her face while Mina Milk presents erotic and dream-like prints.

One of my favourite artists is William Conway, an illustrator and poet though neither title does him justice. His work is beautiful but challenging and forces you to enter borrow his complex, at times disturbing, thought process. His poem One Stop – A Short Story is shaming, true and revolting at once – a reality check to Western women.

Lazy Gramophone is an important window onto talent we may not otherwise encounter. It pulls the plug on artistic trends and makes important suggestions about conceptions of talent in modern British society. I want more!

Find out more on the Lazy Gramophone website, and you can follow LG on Twitter @lazygramophone.

Claire Fletcher reading The Boy Who Saw Blobs from The Book of Apertures