There’s a strange object near the end of Morecambe’s long Stone Jetty pier. From a distance, it looks like a large piano…

Beyond it is only the sea, so, really, it’s stuck out in the middle of Morecambe Bay. It’s actually one of two new radar stations designed for detailed analysis of the intense tidal flows of these parts – some of the largest in the world.

The strange object turns out to be a mixture things: there is the shiny new tidal radar station, but its protective fence is also being used as a temporary art exhibition to show the ecological work of local students of Lancaster and Morecambe College.

The picture have been printed onto a fabric sheet that wraps around the fencing, so their rendering is subject to breeze distortion.

The project set the challenge of painting likely results from rising water levels and selected two areas of the Morecambe Bay Area: Sandylands, not far from the pier, and historic Sunderland Point, once a bigger port than Liverpool.

Various age groups were encouraged to enter, as indicated by the sophistication of the images.

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