A Lovely Spot for a Cuppa weaves together landscape, labour, and quiet ritual in an installation of photographs printed onto used teabags. The images capture the shifting scenes Chris Schreuder encounters while travelling across Northland as a field representative. Much of this time is spent in transit, pausing at places such as beaches, rivers, and roadsides shaped by weather, season, tide, and time.

Made during these brief pauses, the photographs are absorbed into delicate, stained surfaces that carry traces of daily ritual. Here, image and object converge, holding a tension between permanence and decay. The tea stains tint and soften each image, much like memory and mood colour the way we see the world, reminding us that perception is never neutral but shaped by experience.

Suspended to hang freely, the work invites viewers to move around and through it, experiencing the fragile, transient nature of these everyday pauses. In transforming what is typically discarded into something to be seen and considered, A Lovely Spot for a Cuppa invites a quiet attentiveness, to pause, to look closely, and to notice how even the simplest act, a cup of tea, can open new ways of seeing the world.