Youth Week 2025: Image
This year we explore what does it mean to you to take your place? To encourage kōrero, Lul Qiu an amazing young artist has created a beautiful and thoughtful image.
Meaning behind the image
"I am greatly inspired by the land and how our bodies have been able to live off it for centuries. 'Take our place' for me explores how some things can be tangible and emotional as well as physical. The maunga represents the history of what this land has gone through, but the embracing body shows love and respect. I choose to take my place as the daughter of an immigrant and tauiwi of colour here in Aotearoa, while honouring Te Tiriti"
Lulu Qiu
Lulu is a kiwi born Chinese collage artist seeking escapism and looking at life through a surrealist lens. Since opening her small business in 2022, Lulu uses recycled magazine and books to create artwork separate from her body.
Lulu's external visual art practice has no reflection of her Chinese culture but is a result of what it feels to live as a Chinese person in Aotearoa; fragmented and a little but chaotic.
She is excited to uplift our tamariki as future leaders, artists and storytellers.
