Vending machine selling badges, plays and poems

Money raised from the vending machine sales will go back to the artists

Artists are having their work displayed in a vending machine in a shopping centre as part of a public art project in Devon.

The Plymouth Art Vending Machine, operating in the city's Drake Circus mall, is dispensing plays, poems and badges for £1 per item.

The proceeds from the items, packaged in boxes inside the machine, would go back to the artists who created them, organisers said.

It is operating until 8 November.

The machine is selling works for £1 per item

Twenty playwrights and poets have written pieces for the machine.

The range of four enamel pin badges, designed by artists ranging from a children’s book illustrator to a tattooist, featured work inspired by Plymouth landmarks, leaders said.

Project co-ordinator Alex Robins said he hoped it would be "an opportunity for Plymouth artists to create new work, network with other contributors and grow their local audience”.

Support agency Plymouth Culture has funded the project.