The Centre was built with a desire that the building itself would "express the transformative power of the arts"; its founding director was quoted: "We wanted a building that would excite and intrigue and artworks that were integrated into the fabric of the Centre." Thus specific Arts Council funding was awarded, enabling four artists to be recruited. Their resulting work, 'Deep Theatre', was a multimedia collaboration, relaying CCTV images from across the site onto a projection screen at the bottom of the stairs leading down to the auditorium.