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The Pool Project

Liverpool's tidal pool, one of the city's lost routes, is an invisible changing of tidal water levels underground from the Strand up to Paradise Street and Whitechapel.

Liverpool-based artist Jean Grant's Pool Project has campaigned for the recognition of this tidal pool.

The pool is the reason for the city's being, the emotional, geographic, and historic heart of Liverpool. The tidal pool's course still delineates the city's structure, its movement patterns and spatial qualities. It is, however, concealed from both the view and the consciousness of those who travel its route.

The Pool Project will raise the profile of Liverpool's namesake to the position of importance it deserves in the community, creative, academic and business sectors of the city. It will produce a series of large and small researches covering the (invisible) site of the old tidal pool of Liverpool to explore its contemporary significance in terms of social / economic / historical / ecological and urbanistic development.

For more information visit: www.poolproject.co.uk