Battersea Power Station is no stranger to sparkling spectacles. The Grade II-listed Art Deco masterpiece has appeared in Hitchcock films and on the cover of Pink Floyd’s seminal album Animals, and its last Christmas displays have featured festive illuminations designed by David Hockney and Aardman Studio’s Wallace & Gromit. This year, however, they’ve turned to you – the public – to bring some festive cheer to Europe’s largest brick building via an animated light show illuminating the Power Station’s 101-metre-high chimneys.
Taking place after dark each day until the New Year, the show will feature a short animation of projections of Christmas trees designed on an iPad by people from all corners of the UK, including a 7-year-old whose illustration was inspired by emotions. The designs were picked from hundreds of submissions from across the country. See them daily throughout December from 5.30pm to 10.30pm, alongside tree designs from Kylie Minogue, Sir Stephen Fry, Maro Itoje, Oliver Jeffers, David Shrigley OBE and Chawawa.
