Born in London in 1970 Amelia Lancaster is a self taught photographer who combines analogue and digital methods. She has a degree in architecture and a diploma in set design and won a national set design competition to work at the BBC and worked as an art director before becoming an artist and photographer. She combines an influence of early twentieth century art with geometric abstractions from brutalist architecture. Rhythms and traces are also themes that run through much of her work.

Her first solo exhibition at the Wolfson Gallery, National Theatre ‘Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre’ was featured in The Observer and The Architect’s Journal and was also exhibited at the LFA Photo Awards in Porto.

From 2017-2021 she was Artist in Residence for the London Borough of Brent on The South Kilburn Housing Estate documenting the transformation of the area during a period of regeneration through access to the demolition, and construction sites. Brent Council also commissioned Amelia to take a series of portraits to celebrate the lives of Brent tenants for The Addison Act Centenary commemorating 100 years of council homes and the start of social housing. Her sculpture ‘Memorial Lines’ made from the carpenters work benches on the construction site also marks the Addison Act Centenary and looks forward to another 100 years of social housing.

Her personal portraits have also been exhibited at Open Eye Gallery and Der Greif Guest Room curated by Joshua Chuang & Barney Kulok. These create emotional narratives from relationships which feel intrusive rather than intimate and explore the nature of co-dependence.