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Tea were Artists in Residence at Widnes Waterfront during 2007. Temporary ‘hides’ were set up which related to the area as it is or as it might become. These were used to observe, meet people and undertake tasks in order to generate new ways of seeing the area.

Tea: Artists in Residence Widnes Waterfront 2007/8

We occupied a wasteland, the spoiled remains of a once prosperous industrial past at the beginning of its transition into a period of renewal, its evolution into a new form. This was Widnes Waterfront in a liminal state, an uneasy limbo beginning a new phase of its existence.

An A2 folded map-log of the project is available from tim.leather@halton.gov.uk

Tea is a group of visual artists Peter Hatton, Val Murray and Lynn Pilling who explore the representation of places. www.teaweb.org

Commissioned by Halton Borough Council. Part funded by the European Union.

Tea would like to thank: Brad Balmer, Ian Banks, Steve Barr, Joanne Beswick, Jenny Carr, Steve Coldock, Peter Cosgrove, Phil Esseen, The Full Monty Café, Bill Geraghty, Louise Hesketh, Tim Leather, Pauline Lightfoot, Paul Meara, Chris Miller, Sara Munikwa, Paul Murphy, Peter Murray, Rob Routledge, walkers, cyclists, security guards, firemen.