Artists unite to help asylum seekers

  • 28/04/2017

Ninety Kiwi artists have teamed up to help asylum seekers, creating an art walk around the Auckland CBD.

The artists contributing to Frame Works come from all around New Zealand and include Flox, Jeff Thomson, Evan Woodruffe, Anna Leyland and Peata Larkin.

Each was tasked to create a work of art with a wooden picture frame, which are now displayed in windows from Britomart to AUT.

While they all started off the same, each of the final frames looks unique.

Organiser Alix Bachmann said the frames represent the struggles asylum seekers go through.

"For many people, and some entire social groups, the framework of their lives has suddenly disappeared because of war, a change of political regime, persecution, violence and terror.

"They are looking for a safe haven, a place to rebuild their lives, to re-establish their framework of home, work, family and friends."

Combining new tech with the old, attendees track the trail with either a map or a mobile app.

Frame Works opened last Saturday and will finish with an art auction on Tuesday. The money raised will go to the Asylum Seekers Support Trust.

Newshub.