‘I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories

Designed on a domestic scale, the centre’s heart is the double-height kitchen, from which the three sitting rooms, library, courtyard gardens and a number of other spaces for more private or personal conversations, open. Light fills the interior, coming through the glazed walls at first floor level and through openings in the roof

The new building has grown out of a collaboration with the Siobhan Davies Dance that has now lasted ten years. The existing building dictated that the main studio should be on the roof and we were excited by the notion of how it would feel to dance high above the city.

Tate Modern presents the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever held in the UK.Bringing together over seventy of the artist’s seminal works, the exhibition includes key sculptures from the early 1990s such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, in which a shark is suspended in formaldehyde…

The panoramic format of the images succeeds in creating the right environment, bringing nature into the museum. The collection features Hockney´s landscape works that have been created specifically for this exhibition