Aberdeen schoolchildren’s poetry and chalk art enters Nuart 2026 festival

 

 

Pupils’ work pasted on city hoardings and installed at Aberdeen Art Gallery as part of festival’s education programme

 

 

 

Poems by Aberdeen schoolchildren have been pasted onto hoardings, hung at Aberdeen Train Station and installed inside Aberdeen Art Gallery as part of the Nuart Aberdeen 2026 education programme.

 

 

In February, Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council distributed an education pack to schools across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, inviting pupils to submit illustrated poems for the festival.

 

Selected works are on view at the Flint hoarding on Exchange Street, at the train station, at 148 Union Street and on Level 1 of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

 

 

A separate strand, Chalk Don’t Chalk, asked pupils to design and produce three-metre-square chalk works in their school grounds.

 

Documentation from Braehead Way, Hazlehead and Kittybrewster primaries is on view in the arches at Union Terrace Gardens and on the Views of Aberdeen screen in Gallery 15.

 

A further strand, Poetry Slam at Skene Square, is documented at the same locations.