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Reduction (National Theatre I)
Exhibition
Abstractions: Studies of The National Theatre
30 Jan 2024 – 4 Nov 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 23:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Wolfson Gallery, National Theatre
Address
- Upper Ground
- South bank
- London
England - SE1 9PX
- United Kingdom
Amelia Lancaster's photographs of the National Theatre’s architecture reveal a different side to the building. Within the series are three subsets: Beautiful Brutalism, Reduction, and Negatives.
Lancaster reshapes Denys Lasdun’s iconic architecture in this curated free exhibition.
About
Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre
Amelia Lancaster has been photographing the Southbank since 2003. Her training in architecture and set design, combined with her love of early twentieth century art, have influenced her work. She searches for geometries on the facades that are revealed as the light moves around the different angled planes of concrete.
Mainly shot on 35mm film, these pieces are later transformed through spatial abstraction. Contrast and colours are manipulated to accentuate shapes and structure, creating new concrete compositions. Colour is introduced in some pieces to flatten the image and reduce it to colour and shapes only. Negative space is also explored to locate latent configurations beyond the human eye.
Her appreciation of Denys Lasdun and love of the National Theatre architecture comes from the simplicity of the trio of concrete, sunlight and shadows. There are no interruptions. This creates infinite possibilities.
