Founded by Chief Engineer Steve Lowe in 2003*, the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop is a creative platform, spiritual home and technical epicentre for a select group of artists.

Initially showing exhibitions, L-13 has evolved into a production studio specialising in unusual art editions & DIY merch made in collaboration with these artists.

Through a steady output of books, records, limited edition prints, badly screen-printed T-shirts, woodcuts, jewellery, wallpaper, road signs, bed linen, internet sites, sculptures, stamps, zines, paintings etc we have become expert purveyors of the finest and roughest in art & publishing.

By making & selling these special editions we self-fund the realisation of impractical artistic visions we think interesting & worthy, such as touring a couple of 40-ft shipping containers containing dystopian model villages across the UK, or creating new rituals of remembrance by building The Peoples Pyramid.

Find out who we work with on the Artists page.

A complete history of L-13 is yet to be written, but if you are looking for a rabbit-hole of confusing information please refer to our archive pages (2016-2026) and even OLDER archive pages.

*First known known as the aquarium and THE AQUARIUM L-13, founded 2003 /
2006, The L-13 Light Industrial Workshop opened in 2009. L-13 refers to Zeppelin L-13 that bombed London in 1915 and we adopted the name in 2006 when we were based at one of the bomb sites on Farringdon Road. The captain of the Zeppelin L-13 bombing raid was later shot down over Potters Bar in 1916 whilst piloting Zeppelin L-31. The address of the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop is also at number 31. The numbers 13 and 31 occur regularly in our editions and projects as a semi-mystical number.