Alex's Miner on the Moon video is by Tommo.

Last chance to see - Miner on the Moon by Alex Chinneck

For MERGE Festival in 2013 Chinneck built an upside down building to international acclaim. The large-scale site-specific work on a building due for demolition on Blackfriars Road had its façade turned upside down with a design that considered and celebrated the history and life of the building.

Built in 1780, the site was originally used as livery stables, housing horses and carriages for hire. The access through the site was also used to ferry live cattle and goods from the courtyard to trade along the Thames. The building itself was used as a residential unit for families and workers. In 1880 the ground floor shop unit changed use and was listed in the local Post Office as a Pawn Broker, while the passageway to the side was used to gain access to the Tress and Co site.

The artwork is due to be demolished at the end of this year’s festival to make way for a new high rise development. Join us to create a narrative for its final days.

London-based artist Chinneck takes sculpturally complex routes to arrive at playful visual moments. Exploring the space between art, theatre and architecture he is inspired by the landscapes of London’s industrial peripheries. He reworks their powerful aesthetics and aims to find new and ambitious applications for everyday construction materials. The unrefined materials of basic construction are given a second life. Removed from their utilitarian context they are reshaped and enlivened with new purpose and appearance. Stones, metals and woods are manipulated beyond their apparent capacity to transcend their material nature and often move with illusory effect.

Chinneck has a history of making large scale public works to great acclaim, including From the Knees of My Nose to the Belly of My Toes, in Margate and Miner on the Moon, Blackfriars, London in 2013 and Telling the truth through false teeth in Hackney, London.