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Ackroyd & Harvey, On The Shore, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2021

Artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Tate Modern June 2021

Beuy's Acorns installation by Ackroyd & Harvey, Tate Modern 2021

Artist, Dan Harvey planning the size of the banner for On The Shore, Bankside

Plan for Ben Okri’s words to be laid out on a hessian blanket and seeded in grass in the Turbine Hall by Ackroyd & Harvey, photo by Andy Sewell

Heather Ackroyd, Artist Ackroyd & Harvey, Turbine Hall Tate Modern 2021

Artist, Heather Ackroyd sows grass seed with members of the Tate Community, Tate Modern 2021

Member of the Tate Community helps sow the grass seed on the hessian banner in the Turbine Hall Tate Modern, photo by Andy Sewell

Artist, Dan Harvey sows grass seed on the hessian blanket with a member of the Tate Community, Tate Modern 2021

Artist, Heather Ackroyd, smooths the grass seed on the Hessian banner in the Turbine Hall Tate Modern, photo by Andy Sewell

Dan Harvey, Artist, Ackroyd & Harvey, Turbine Hall Tate Modern 2021

After careful watering, morning, noon, and night the grass seed starts to geminate on the banner, Turbine Hall Tate Modern

Artists, Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd, begin to set Ben Okri's words on the bed of grass seed, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, photo by Andy Sewell

The grass seed quickly germinates and begins to transform the banner into a bed of vivid green, Turbine Hall Tate Modern

Once germinated the grass kicks in and transforms the hessian blanket into a carpet of vivid green, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern

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Visitors gather around the living grassy message by Ben Okri as cellist - Georgina Lloyd-Owens - improvises in the magnificent space, photo by Andy Sewell

Ben Okri, Kelly Hill and Charlotte Jarvis watch Mirabella Okri interact with the grass banner, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, photo by Elaine Duigenan

Volunteers from around the country kneel beside the grassy banner and start to roll the live message addressing the climate emergency, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, photo by Elaine Duigenan

The grassy banner lies on the ground outside Tate Modern as volunteers prepare lift the message and carry it to the River Thames at Bankside, photo by Elaine Duigenan

Volunteers carry the living banner on bamboo poles from Tate Modern to the River Thames at Bankside, photo by Elaine Duigenan

The volunteers unroll the banner outside Tate Modern and prepare to float the message on the River Thames at Bankside, photo by Elaine Duigenan

Dancer, Charlotte Jarvis, leads the banner from Tate Modern to Bankside, photo by Andy Sewell

The volunteers carry the huge banner to the waters edge, ready to lower it to the shore at Bankside, 2021, photo by Andy Sewell

Ackroyd & Harvey’s grassy pelt is lowered to meet the incoming tide by a team of volunteers at Bankside, photo by Andy Sewell

The grassy banner is lowered onto the shore at Bankside by a team of volunteers, photo by Elaine Duigenan

The grassy banner is lowered onto the shore at Bankside by the artists, Ackroyd & Harvey, and a team of volunteers, photo by Elaine Duigenan

Ackroyd & Harvey and Ben Okri's message, addressing the climate emergency, is floated on the River Thames at Bankside. The city glowers in the distance. Photo by Adele Harvey

Artists, Dan Harvey & Heather Ackroyd, watch proceedings as the banner is floated on the River Thames at Bankside, photo by Andy Sewell

Mallard ducks quickly take up residence on the grassy banner that successfully floats on the River Thames at Tate Modern Bankside, photo by Andy Sewell

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As the tide falls the banner is bought to shore. Artists, Ackroyd & Harvey, lie on the soaking blanket at the end of a very long day

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