POWER & CHAOS

Some structures are built to function. Others are built to survive. Only a few become part of a nation’s memory.

A fifteen-year visual study of Battersea Power Station as architecture, memory, and English civic identity.

Power & Chaos traces Battersea Power Station through abandonment, restoration, and reinvention, preserving it as structure, symbol, and public memory through sustained observation and long familiarity with the site.

The project records more than a landmark. It follows a building that has come to embody competing ideas of Britain: industry and spectacle, labour and capital, decline and renewal, inheritance and reinvention. In that sense, Battersea is not simply photographed here as architecture, but read as cultural evidence.

Observed across changing conditions and eras of use, the work moves from dereliction and silence to illumination, performance, and redevelopment. The station remains one of London’s most recognisable forms, but its meaning shifts with each phase. Power & Chaos holds those shifts in view without flattening them into nostalgia or celebration.

At the centre of the series is a wider question: how does a nation remember itself through its buildings? Battersea carries the visual language of British power long after its original function fell silent. Its chimneys, riverfront mass, and industrial geometry remain legible as symbols — even as the social and economic world that produced them has changed.

For the full project statement and The Six Acts, visit the Power & Chaos Statement.

For a fuller biography, exhibitions, and publications, visit the About page.

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