PLEASE DRAW FREELY

Draw freely outside Tate Modern as a family

Please Draw Freely is a large free-standing board on which you are free to draw whatever and however you want! Join in and add to this collective artwork.

Created by Yoshihara Jirō in 1956, artists of all ages are welcome to draw, scribble, and sketch as part of this recreation of the original artwork outside Tate Modern. Yoshihara was the leader of the Gutai group of radical Japanese artists who wanted to change the world through painting, performance and children’s play.

Inside Tate modern's Turbine Hall, visit the Gutai-inspired artwork UNIQLO Tate Play: Mega Please Draw Freely by artist Ei Arakawa. You will be surrounded by giant pine tree sculptures in homage to the pine trees in Ashiya Park, where Please Draw Freely was first exhibited in 1956. If you want to visit the event inside Tate Modern, you'll need to book a free ticket for All Tate Modern Collections.

Inspired by the art and ideas at Tate Modern, our free activities and events continue throughout the year as part of UNIQLO Tate Play, offering families new ways to get creative playfully explore art together.

This summer, be part of a major collective artwork in the Turbine Hall for UNIQLO Tate Play: Mega Please Draw Freely, by artist Ei Arakawa. Draw on the Turbine Hall floor or on a banner inside a theatrical pine forest. We will hang banners up each Monday for everyone to see. Your drawings will combine with the drawings of others – those who came before you and those who came after you – to create this living mega artwork!

There will be live performances at 11.00 and 14.00 daily, (lasting 30–45 minutes) which you will be able to take part in. Arakawa will lead the performances 12-15 August which will include the Mega Please Draw Freely Picnic weekend.

Inspired by the Gutai group – radical Japanese artists who wanted to change the world through painting, performance and children’s play – everyone of all ages is welcome to scribble, sketch and become part of this collective artwork.