Each of five visual artists were given a common task to make a new work, using forty white chairs, one day, two technicians and a lighting designer, all in response to the Boiler House of the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. The season began with my piece 40 white chairs and 40 black buckets.

40 chairs were hoisted on pulleys 8.5m up to the girders that support the roof of the Boiler House. 40 black builders buckets full of water counter weighed them and held them there. Each bucket had a siphon system attached to it and the water leaked out at different flow rates over the 7 day exhibition. Each bucket started to rotate as it lifted, and once the water reached an optimum level, the chair dropped to the ground and the bucket connected to it rose up to the ceiling.

Commissioned by The Wapping Project
The Jerwood Commission 2003