Amelia Lancaster

About Me
Amelia Lancaster has a degree in architecture and a diploma in set designer. She won a National Set Design Competition to work at the BBC and worked as an Art Director before becoming an artist and photographer.
Her first solo exhibition ‘Abstractions; Studies of the National Theatre’ at the Wolfson Gallery, National Theatre has just ended but continues in the LFA awards in Porto.

This was published in The Observer newspaper, Architects Journal and The Guardian.

Mainly shot on 35mm film this work transforms the concrete architecture of the Southbank through spatial abstraction; contrast and colours are manipulated to accentuate shapes and structure, creating new concrete compositions and ambiguous spaces. Colour is used to flatten the image and negative space is also explored to locate latent configurations beyond the human eye.

Between 2017 -2021 she was Artist in Residence for the London Borough of Brent where she documented the urban transformation of South Kilburn during an extensive period of regeneration through access to the demolition, and construction sites. This combined her interests in Brutalist Architecture and Modernist Housing Estates.

Recent work from these endeavours was exhibited at The London Festi...

1988-1991 BoA Architecture, The University of Manchester
1992-1993 Diploma in Set Design, Kingston University
1993-1994 National Set Design Competition winner and bursary with the BBC
1995-1996 Pre-Diploma in Architecture, The Bartlett, UCL

2025 - Luis Ferreira Alves Photo Awards Exhibition
(Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre)
2023-2025 - Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre
The Wolfson Gallery, The National Theatre, London. (First solo Exhibition)
2025 - Der Greif Guest Room, curated by Joshua Chuang and Barney Kulok. (Shaving portraits).
2022 - (Re)Production:Parenthood and The Art World at Open Eye Gallery. Self portrait 'Mother and Child'
2022 - ‘Superspreader’ in Relational Dreams exhibition at The Bhavan.
2020 - Ruins x Velorose, partnered with Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays.
2020 - ‘Regeneration’, The London Festival of Architecture
2020 - 100 Years of Council Homes, Addison Act Centenary Exhibition, The Brent Civic Centre.
2019 - RUINS at The Roundhouse.
Collaborative photographic exhibition with FUBUNATION
2019 - Longlist; last 213 for the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. Portrait of a poet,’Dwight’.
2019 - 'Regeneration' selected for The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
April 2019 - 'Regeneration' shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize and Exhibition.
2018 - 'Regeneration' exhibited at The Granville Community Centre, The South Kilburn Estate.
2017 - 3(D) Printers Exhibition at Velorose Galler...