Art Chemist

Did you know you can get arts on prescription? To look at a painting, read some poetry, or immerse yourself in a performance may be exactly what the doctor ordered! Visit the Art Chemist for a one on one consultation, offering creative means to soothe what ails you.

Art Chemist is an interactive performance and installation that operates as a space somewhere between an apothecary, therapist’s office and arts’ directory offering unique prescriptions and creative cure-alls. This site responsive draws on international studies which support the benefit of ‘arts on prescription’ for improving mental wellbeing as well as a desire to support and showcase local arts communities.

Each installation and the following one-on-one consultations are responsive both to the location and individual. A local 'art directory' is built up and used to create prescriptions for each person that takes part. The work is gentle and earnest with a touch of the familiar yet absurd; it offers a chance to connect, reflect and see the city through new eyes.

Visit Art Chemist at: 

• Every weekend of February 11am-5pm at the Albert Park Caretakers' Cottage 
• Thursday 9 February 5pm-8pm at the Studio One Toi Tū - Karangahape Pop Up site, as part of First Thursdays on Karangahape Road
• Friday 10 February 5pm-8pm at Basement Theatre 
• Saturday February 25th at Auckland Pride Festival's Pride In The Square in Aotea Square