POST-POST-INDUSTRIAL is a research installation about the land around the Beckton Gasworks and its ongoing development. The artists William McLucas and Thomas McLucas have curated, designed & built a hybrid archive of film documentation, digital scans, 3D prints and plaster casts to capture the site in its current state.
“Once the largest gasworks in the world, covering over 500 acres of land, Beckton played a major role in the development of London. Through this exhibition, fragments of this urban industrial relic are preserved, through digital scanning, site casting, found objects and film, forming a hybrid archive of the landscape in its transitional state, suggesting speculative pasts and futures. The survey of this site reflects on our evolving relationship with place, through the monumental shifts in the city’s post-industrial landscapes and suggests a qualitative and affective approach to fill the amnesic gap between hazy scenes of early 20th century labour and today’s mixed use developments.”
Thomas McLucas
POST-POST-INDUSTRIAL, 26th July – 30th July, Art in the Docks, 25 Shackelton Way E16 2XJ
12PM-6PM MORE
About the artists
Thomas McLucas is a London-based spatial and digital artist, specialising in creating immersive environments that explore data ownership, infrastructure, and control systems. At the Royal College of Art, his work spanned diverse media, to communicate narrative-based propositions. His academic background informs his approach, blending theory with practical design to address global issues. Thomas has showcased at the RCA WIP and RCA2023 shows. Collaborating with Superflux, he contributed as a digital design consultant to a public installation on the Strand. His collaborative projects with Limbo Accra are exhibited internationally, including at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, and Chicago Architecture Biennial.
William McLucas https://william-mclucas.com/INFO
