Wolfson Gallery, October 2023 – August 2025

I have been photographing the Southbank and National Theatre since 2003. My training in architecture and set design, combined with an appreciation of early twentieth century art, have influenced my work.

I explore the process of visual perception and how we abstract architectural form. I search for geometries on the facades that are revealed as the light moves around the different angled planes of concrete. Shot on 35mm film, the pictures are later transformed through spatial abstraction. Contrast is manipulated to accentuate shapes and structure, creating new concrete compositions. Negatives reveal latent configurations and the resulting dynamic geometries and colour transitions explore the idea that the architecture itself is performative.

My appreciation for the Brutalist complex comes from the simplicity of the trio of concrete, sunlight and shadows, there are no interruptions. This creates infinite possibilities with the spectrum of colour film.

The process for each final picture can take months; I return throughout the years’s cycle to make shadow studies. The works are divided into four subsets: The first (Beautiful Brutalism) emphasises the monolithic forms of the structure. The second (Reduction) flattens the facade and reduces it to colour and shapes only. The third (Negatives) explores the space between structures and how architectural materiality is emphasised through inversion. The fourth (Reconstruction) takes the negatives another step away from reality by zooming into details and juxtaposing geometries or by layering several negatives to generate animated spaces revealing the theatricality of the building itself. Thus there is a slow logical process in abstracting the architectural forms.