Anya Gallaccio has been invited to create a new site-specific installation for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. The Duveen Galleries Sculpture Commission, supported this year by Malvern Water, is a prominent and prestigious biennial event in the exhibition programme at Tate Britain. The first Commission, for the launch of Tate Britain in 2000, was undertaken by Mona Hatoum, but the Commission builds on a long programme of sculpture exhibitions in the Duveens at the Millbank Tate including installations by Richard Long, Richard Serra and Luciano Fabro.

In her practice, Gallaccio employs natural materials - flowers, fruit, water, grass - to create installations that are perhaps more like events. She has said before that her work is both a performance and a collaboration due to the unpredictable nature of the material she works with. She uses these everyday materials in fantastical, unexpected ways, 'concealing her artifice under a cloak of naturalness'. Her installations often change over the course of time, and they not only engage the viewer visually, but can also act on the other senses such as smell and hearing.