Debbie Lawson

Debbie Lawson is a deputy chief sub-editor on The Observer and a freelance travel journalist. She has worked on newspapers for more than 10 years and graduated in 2004 with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. Debbie uses furniture and found objects to make sculptures which take the viewer on an eerily animated journey into the psychological landscape of the domestic interior.

She will install an almost full-size model of the but an' ben from The Broons, made entirely out of newspaper, at the McManus Gallery in October. Visitors from DC Thomson – who publish The Broons – and the public will be able to walk into the but an' ben, where they will find the interior intact, complete with furniture and the daily evidence of family life, giving them the chance to become part of the artwork themselves.

The project will take place later in 2010.