National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

£15.00
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National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
  • National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up
National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

A South Bank monument, in black-and-white Risograph by Spaceplay

National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

£15.00

3 FOR 2 ON ALL RISOGRAPH PRINTS

A3 Risograph Print with border
Print Size: 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Print Style: Black and White Risograph
Paper Style: Heavy weight textured cream
Sold unframed and posted in a tube
Based on my original photograpy

An artistic portrayal of Lasdun's stacked terraces from the corner, looking up. Affordable, sustainable wall art for anyone who has had a drink on those terraces before curtain-up.

Real printed artwork without the gallery price

Low-impact printing with soy-based inks

Grain and textures perfect for Brutalism

Artisan printed in the UK

SHIPPING + RETURNS

Shipping

All Spaceplay prints are posted within 14 days.

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UK customers can also select Express Shipping at checkout to have their print  posted within 7 days.

Returns

You can return unused and undamaged items within 30 days of delivery for a refund, excluding return postage costs.

If your model arrives damaged, faulty, or incorrect, please email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and photos of the issue. I’ll arrange a free replacement to be made and posted to you.
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Building Information

Location: London, England 
Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun
Completed: 1976
Status: Grade II Listed
Brief Overview: 
The National Theatre was, according to Prince Charles- " a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting".  While his view is unsurprising- the design split architectural opinion- even amongst those who often favoured the modernist aesthetic.  Unapologetically Brutalist inside and out the National Theatre is home to three Theatres, including the Olivier Theatre named after its founder Laurence Oliver.

My Risograph Prints

I often go hunting for Brutalist buildings and photograph them wherever I can get to them — car parks, bus stations, university towers, housing estates. Some of the ones in this collection have already been demolished.

 Photographing them is how I collect them; printing them is how I share them.

I think Risograph suits concrete. It's a stencil process: soy-based ink pushed through a drum one layer at a time, soaking into the paper rather than sitting on top of it in a glossy film. You get grain, texture and gorgeous matte blacks, and small variations from one print to the next that mean no two are quite identical. I think this makes it look and feel more like concrete.

Every print is produced with an independent artisan printer here in the UK, on 170gsm Munken Pure Rough Premium paper. The soy-based inks replace petroleum ones — lower in solvents, easier to recycle — and the press needs no heat to fuse them, so it draws a fraction of the power of a laser machine. This makes all of my prints affordable and eco-friendly.

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National Theatre Risograph Print — Corner Look-Up

Denys Lasdun called it a city landscape rather than a building, and standing at the corner looking up you can see what he meant. This risograph print takes the National Theatre from below, where the terraces step out over your head and the board-marked concrete shows every grain of the timber it was cast against. Prince Charles hated it. Everyone who has ever had a drink on those terraces before a show does not. Printed A3 in black and white on heavy textured paper — the right surface for concrete that was always meant to be touched. South Bank Brutalism, Grade II* listed and unrepentant. A3 wall art for theatregoers and Londoners, and a gift for an architect who understands that the terraces matter as much as the auditoria.