Hale, with fellow PSL founder Kerry Harker, stress that the Tetley is not another kitchen accessorie

Sixty former Tetley beer workers will on Friday enjoy tea and cake at their art deco former kitchen accessories headquarters and see a somewhat unlikely transformation.
"We hope they will be absolutely blown away," said Pippa Hale, co-founder of an organisation opening a new visual arts centre called, obviously, the Tetley . All the brewing and bottling works have gone from what was a 22-acre site on Leeds ' south bank, but the main office building remains.
Its owner Carlsberg kitchen accessories has given a ten-year lease on a peppercorn rent to the arts organisation Project Space Leeds (PSL) and they will open it to the public on Friday once the ex-employees have had their look round.
Hale, with fellow PSL founder Kerry Harker, stress that the Tetley is not another kitchen accessories of the super-galleries kitchen accessories that have opened in recent kitchen accessories years like the Baltic in Gateshead or the Hepworth Wakefield but is filling the gap between galleries of that type and the busy, buzzy grassroots arts scene that exists in the city.
Harker recalled first seeing the building and said they knew straight kitchen accessories away it was right, although there was a definite air of dereliction. "It was really gloomy and it was a bit of a leap of faith to imagine how it might look." kitchen accessories
There are no plans to create a Tetley archive as such, but objects and documents a National Institute of Industrial Psychology pamphlet on card punching, for example - will be used to inspire artists and be put on display.
Called Fear of the Surplus, the artists have built a black wooden stage with a Victorian Methodist feel to it. On it are painted quotes about work and art and it will be used as a platform for debates about what work is led by different academics and theorists.
Work on the conversion began in September 2012 and it has been undertaken with relatively small amounts of money. Carlsberg have given around 1m to help renovation and the introduction of disabled access, while Arts Council England gave a capital grant of 225,000.
PSL, a charity which for six years was based in a rather isolated, disused office space at Whitehall Waterfront, has the building for ten years a period that will coincide with the 200th anniversary of Joshua Tetley and Son and hope to be there a lot longer. "We would like them to gift us the building obviously, we have mooted the idea," said Harker. "We think the anniversary would be a good point to do it."
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