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NEW PROJECT STARTS IN JANUARY

Here Without Home invites you to pause and look again.

Through poetry, music, art, and film, we explore homelessness not through facts and figures, but through shared creativity and human experience. This is community art that asks questions, opens conversations, and offers new ways of seeing.

Step inside. Listen. Imagine with us.

Here Without Home is a community art project that begins with listening. Before facts, before statistics, we make space for ideas, stories, and shared imagination. Our work has always centred on exhibiting art and craft that asks gentle but powerful questions, inviting people to look again at the world around them.

Between January and March 2025 we have explored progressive themes such as sustainability, diversity, and digital culture. Not to sell objects, but to surface thinking things. Works that linger in the mind, open conversations, and offer new perspectives through creativity rather than instruction. Art, for us, is a way of thinking together.

This next chapter turns our attention to homelessness. Not as an abstract issue, but as a human experience that exists within our own streets, relationships, and daily lives. Here Without Home approaches this subject with care, curiosity, and respect, using creativity as a meeting place where empathy can grow and judgement can soften.

Central to the project is active collaboration with our community. We are creating four creative pathways, inviting poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers to step forward and contribute their voices. These pathways are spaces for shared making, dialogue, and exploration, where different forms of expression intersect and inform one another.

By bringing these voices into conversation, Here Without Home becomes more than an exhibition. It is a living process shaped by participation, reflection, and collective imagination. Our ethos remains simple and steady: community art for all. We believe creativity can increase harmony, strengthen connection, and help communities see themselves, and each other, more clearly.

The Bones of the Project

Here without Home

 – An Artlandish Community Project

Homelessness is often seen as an urban issue — visible on city streets, under bright lights and busy overpasses. But in smaller towns like Hereford, it takes quieter, more hidden forms. People sleep in doorways, in cars, on friend’s sofas, or simply move through each day without a place to call their own, or they are forced to flee their homes from wars and conflicts and are grateful for refuge, but their heart lies far away and to people who are forced to leave their homes due to domestic violence, to hide to stay safe, but lose their sense of belonging.

We propose a community art project exploring what “home” means when it’s uncertain, and how local communities respond to the challenges of homelessness in all its forms. We will gather stories from those involved, including support workers, charitable organisations and most importantly the people in our community who are here without a home. Through portraits, poems, music, stories, and collaborative artwork, the project aims to make visible those who are often unseen — not as statistics, but as neighbours, artists, and voices within the fabric of our towns. 

By looking closely at Herefordshire, we reflect on a wider truth about England today: that housing insecurity, poverty, and social disconnection are not distant problems. They are part of our shared landscape — and it is within our smaller places that we can begin to rebuild belonging, compassion, and hope. 

We have access to two shops on Gomond street number 4 & 7 (nearly opposite each other) which will allow us to have a gallery/performance space and a project space, this will give  a workshop and a place to experiment with installation, inspiration and imagination, allowing both artists and the general public to interact in a less formal situation. 

This project seeks to attract young and old, novice and accomplished, musicians, poet’s, artists of all mediums, filmmakers, story tellers.

The project will run from the Open Evening on Friday the 16^th of January until March the 29^th. 

For more details please emails us info@artlandish.co.uk

CALL OUT: ARTISTS, CREATIVES & COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS

Artlandish – Community Arts for All invites artists and supporters of all kinds to be part of
HERE WITHOUT HOME

We are seeking artists, musicians, poets, filmmakers, writers, performers, volunteers, workshop providers, gallery workers, poster makers, and anyone who feels called to support this project.

Here Without Home gathers stories from people with lived experience of homelessness and displacement — including those forced to flee home due to domestic violence, war, or upheaval. These stories will become inspiration for new creative work that builds empathy, understanding, and connection within our wider community.

We are looking for people willing to respond with care, respect, and imagination.

How you can be involved

• Create new work inspired by lived-experience stories
• Facilitate or support creative workshops
• Offer time, skills, or practical help as a volunteer
• Attend exhibition, screening, or performance 
• Support installation, documentation, or outreach
• Help amplify the project through networks and platforms

We welcome all art forms, all levels of experience, and all backgrounds. What matters most is a willingness to listen, collaborate, and contribute to a project grounded in dignity and shared humanity.

If you don’t see yourself listed but feel you have something to offer — we want to hear from you.

How to get Get involved

📧 Contact: info@artlandish.co.uk
🌐 Project: Here Without Home
🎨 Organisation: Artlandish – Community Arts for All

Together, we can turn stories into spaces of understanding, creativity, and compassion. 

Call out for folks with lived experience. 

Herefordshire Artlandish invites people with lived experience of homelessness to share their stories through art Artlandish, a voluntary community arts organisation based in Hereford, is launching a new creative project to shine a light on the real experiences of homelessness in all its forms. 

The project, part of the Here Without Home initiative, aims to collect personal stories and transform them into powerful art of all forms that challenge perceptions, educate the wider public, and support meaningful change.

Artlandish is inviting anyone in the Midlands who has experienced homelessness — whether through sofa-surfing, rough-sleeping, a way to escaping trauma or domestic abuse, mental health challenges, eviction, insecure housing, care leaver experiences, or difficulties linked with criminal convictions — to come forward and share their story in a way that feels safe for them. 

Stories can be submitted anonymously, including through voice notes, or shared with contact details if the person would like to be involved more directly. “These stories matter — and art can help people truly hear them” Homelessness is often hidden, misunderstood, or oversimplified. Many people move between temporary or unsafe living situations without ever being seen or counted. 

Through this project, Artlandish hopes to give space to the lived voices behind the statistics. “Art allows us to feel what someone else has lived,” said Artlandish. “A painting, a poem, a collage, a sound recording — these can open hearts in ways facts alone can’t. We want to honour the courage, challenges, resilience and truths of people who have navigated homelessness in all it forms. 

These stories deserve to be heard, shared, and learned from. Participants can choose to:
– Tell their story in their own words
– submit a voice note (anonymous or named)
– create art themselves, with optional support from Artlandish artists. 

Stories and artworks will contribute to community exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public conversations throughout Herefordshire, helping people understand the realities of local housing struggles — and why change is urgently needed. A safe, respectful invitation Artlandish emphasises that sharing is completely voluntary, and participants can share as much or as little as they’re comfortable with. No personal information is required unless someone wants to be contacted for follow-up.

All experiences are welcome. Every story — big or small, past or recent — helps build a fuller picture of homelessness in our community. People can submit their story or voice note by contacting: info@artlandish.co.uk