Tate Britain Winter Commission 2019: Artist Anne Hardy gives gallery a ghostly new look

Tate Britain has been transformed into this ghostly ruin hung with lights and tattered banners.

Artist Anne Hardy took her inspiration from its location next to the Thames to decorate the building for its annual “Winter Commission”.

Her work, called Depth Of Darkness, The Return Of The Light, also includes a 21-minute soundtrack filled with the noises of rain, thunder, birds and insects that was partly recorded while travelling down the river in a canoe.

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said: “I’m very excited to see another transformation of Tate Britain’s iconic facade. Anne Hardy has created something at once fantastically imaginative and urgently topical, reminding us not only of the changing seasons but of the changing climate.”