Young illustrators, painters, poets and more in public spaces, making art for the people walking through. A sketch of you, a poem about your morning, a drawing of the street you're on. Made in minutes, signed, and gifted to keep.
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A live art activation that leaves people with something to take home, hang on the wall and remember your space by. Artists roam with pencils and paints, a typewriter for on-the-spot poems, and a receipt printer that turns someone's journey into a printed keepsake.
Young visual artists and poets who want paid work doing what they do best. And town centres, councils and business associations who want people to linger, dwell, feel welcome and leave with a good memory of the place.
We choose artists to suit the space and the crowd, and tailor the work to the space, the theme or the event. The art can be of the person, the place, or a moment someone shares. Each piece is signed, and the back can carry the name of the space, local board or business association behind the day.
Live Personalised Art runs alongside Rangatahi on Stage, so visual artists and poets join the same roster, get paid the same way, and are put forward for bigger briefs.
“Your poems today really moved me. I read them again in the car and to my husband when I got home.”
a member of the public · young at art
“I wrote a poem for a lovely lady and she came back later to thank me for it and tell me that it inspired her to actually go for her dream of travelling.”
Amanda, poet
Bring Live Personalised Art to your space, or join as an artist
youtharts.nz/get-involved
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