Amelia Lancaster

Amelia Lancaster originally trained as an architect and set designer before becoming an artist and photographer. She won a National Set Design Competition to work at the BBC and worked as an Art Director before becoming an artist.
Since November 2018 she has been Artist in Residence for the London Borough of Brent on The South Kilburn Housing Estate. She is documenting the urban transformation of the area during an extensive period of regeneration through exclusive access to all the empty blocks, demolition, and construction sites. This combines her interests in Brutalist Architecture and Modernist Housing Estates. Recent work from these endeavours was exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019, Ashurst Emerging Artist Exhibition 2019 and The London Festival of Architecture 2020. Amelia’s work has also been shown at The Proud Gallery and The Courtauld Institute East Wing Biennial and this year at The Bhavan and Open Eye Galleries.
In 2019 Amelia was commissioned by Brent Council to take a series of portraits to celebrate the lives of Brent council tenants for The Addison Act Centenary commemorating 100 years of council homes and the start of social housing. These were exhibited at the Brent Civic Centre with The Chartere...

1988 - 91 B.A.Hons Architecture (Manchester University)

1992-3 Diploma in Film and TV Design (KingstonUniversity)

1995-6 Pre Diploma in Architecture at The Bartlett
University College London

Self portrait 'Mother and Child'
(Re)Production:Parenthood and the art world at OPEN EYE GALLERY JULY 2022

‘SUPERSPREADER’ in RELATIONAL DREAMS exhibition at The Bhavan 2022

RUINS X VELOROSE (partnered with Whitechaple Gallery’s First Thursdays) 2020 Collaborative portraits of FUBUNATION shot on The South Kilburn Estate.

‘REGENERATION’, THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2020.

100 YEARS OF COUNCIL HOMES, THE ADDISON ACT CENTENARY EXHIBITION FOR BRENT COUNCIL
The Brent Civic Centre 2020. Portraits celebrating the lives of Brent Council Tenants.

RUINS at The Roundhouse 2019
Collaborative photographic exhibition with FUBUNATION

LAST 213 (FINAL ROUND) TAYLOR WESSING, NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
2019 Portrait of a poet,’Dwight’.

'Regeneration' selected for The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition June - August 2019

April 2019 'Regeneration' shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize and Exhibition.3(D) Printers Exhibition at Velorose Gallery
November 2017-January 2018

'Regeneration' exhibited at The Granville Community Centre, The South Kilburn Estate.

'Photography on a Postcard' Exhibition at The Printspace, October 2017

October 2016 National Open Art Exhibition

2015-2016 work featured ...