BANKSIDE POWER STATION RE IMAGINED AS A GALLERY OF MODERN ART

In April 1994 the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern. The £134 million conversion started in June 1995 with the removal of the remaining redundant plant. The conversion work was completed in January 2000.

In 1996 along with seven other artists I was invited to record this transformation, while others drew and photographed the site, I decided that my response was to reimagine what the building could become.

I negotiated to have the keys to the building and for over three months and set about my work. Removing doors to re-purpose as tables, I made studios on three floors, of what would become the administration block.

I began a series of wall cuts into the fabric of the building, which had some connection to art works that had been influential to my development as an artist.

Some had obvious visual connections with works like Target, Jasper Johns, Stare (Lawerence Weiner), Others were more oblique like the proposition Three Sided Square, (Micheal Craig-Martin) Other pieces responded to the River Thames Boat and others like Door to previous work.