© Charlie Round Turner
This spring, Battersea Power Station will welcome two new public art installations by award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist, Charlotte Colbert, in partnership with public art and cultural placemaking agency, New Public.
From 23 April until 1 June 2025, two of Colbert’s large-scale sculptural pieces, Dreamland Sirens and Where Angels Live, will take pride of place within the Grade II* listed building’s historic turbine halls to form Chasing Rainbows, an exhibition exploring dreams, imagination, hope, and how to create a future of collective inclusivity.
Complementing the Dreamland Sirens sculpture will be an exclusive Charlotte Colbert pop-up shop open between 9 – 18 May, which will offer visitors to Battersea Power Station the chance to purchase a range of items designed by the artist, including fashion, accessories, and homeware. During the weekends, shoppers can also pick up a free Colbert-designed patch of their choice at the pop-up store’s customisation station.
Kate Boothman-Meier, Head of Communications & Marketing at Battersea Power Station Development Company said, “We are delighted to welcome Charlotte Colbert and her extraordinary installations to Battersea Power Station this spring, in partnership with New Public and London Craft Week, in the year that Wandsworth has been named London Borough of Culture. Complemented by the pop-up Charlotte Colbert shop and customisation station, the partnership is a celebration of public artwork and craftmanship. It is also an opportunity for us to offer a unique experience to our visitors and for shoppers to take home a bespoke keepsake when they visit us in May.”
Charlotte Colbert said, “We can look to the surreal to help us see the world more clearly. I’m looking forward to showing two of my large-scale sculptures in the wonderfully iconic Battersea Power Station. Like much of my practice, they are in dialogue with fairy tales and dreams. We live in imagined structures – everything around us was imagined by someone before, from the streets we walk on to the clothes we wear. In a time when dreaming is often dismissed as superfluous or frivolous, it’s important to remember that imagination is actually essential. What we dream and imagine today becomes tomorrow’s reality. And as such, we all have the power to reimagine everything differently – the future is malleable.”
To discover more about Chasing Rainbows and the Charlotte Colbert pop-up shop and customisation station, please visit the website.
