Hi folks, as some of you may know, we recently set up a new email account – info@artlandish.co.uk – and some of you may have already received emails from this address. However, we have become aware that some of these emails – particularly those that were sent to Gmail addresses – were going into the spam folder. In order to minimise this moving forward (as this will be the address that we prefer to use for all communication), you can help us out in the following ways:
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We thought we better pull our fingers out and give you an update on what’s been happening down at Artlandish. We will try to get one out every month to keep you all updated on developments.
We are grinding up into action once again and we would love you to be involved. Help us in continuing and building on the wonderful community spirit that has been created during the last two Artlandish projects.
We got the keys and we got it sorted out!
This week we got the keys for the new Project & Performance Space at 4, Gomond Street and have been industrious in transforming it into a workable workshop area, bar and small performance area. We are very excited about getting it off the ground with our open evening Friday 16th January. There will be a chance to get involved in a free, simple animation workshop while you’re there if you like (also on Saturday and Sunday).
We have two shops in the Maylords until the end of March. Our much loved gallery in number 7 Gomond street will be open for all on Friday the 23rd January for the private/public view of our first exhibition No Place Like Home in The Here Without Home project. So far, a good response but there is still time to submit work as submissions close on the 12th of January and of course we’d welcome you all for the PV.
Our latest venture HERE WITHOUT HOME is ‘slightly scarily’ ambitious. We wish to embark on a multi arts project, encompassing music, art, poetry and film branches. Allowing more of our local creative community to get involved, and grow Artlandish. But we can’t do it without you! We have been hugely inspired with the feedback and reception from previous events, this has spurred us on to bigger dreams in our hub and beyond.
A little about the HERE WITHOUT HOME project.
The subject is weighty but worthy, 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 friends 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. We wish to hear, and respond to their voices and be inspired to represent these emotions via art, music, film and poetry. We wish to enhance understanding because these situations should not be thought of as normal. We probably all know someone who has been through such times, we feel that highlighting the situation is the right thing to do.
How are we going to do this?
We are seeking stories from people who are homeless, or have lived experience and we want you to feel inspired to use your practice and art to bring those voices to life, using your unique skills to represent their or your experiences in a compassionate way. We are hoping to work with a number of artist that have lived experience and appreciate what they have to offer.
We also wish to create an environment where we can invite folks in to explore creativity who may usually feel intimidated by ‘The Art World’ to come and get involved with workshops in Poetry, Music, Art and Film. On very limited resources that is no mean feat, so any offers of volunteers to donate resources or/and come and get involved with helping out stewarding or manning the bar will be very gratefully received.
What will it achieve?
We can’t change what is happening, but we can find ways via artistic endeavours to increase understanding and raise awareness of how far-reaching these problems are.
Via music, art, poetry and film.
We hope to address this problem with creativity and care.
This is a community arts project which seeks to enable members of the community to access free Arts workshops and enhance and build an artistic hub within Hereford for artists and non-artists alike. Artlandish believes the art is for all. You will be able to join workshops, exhibitions, gigs, film nights, poetry club, musical performances pay as you feel or come for free.
For more information, access our Instagram and Facebook page called Artlandish
How are we going to achieve it?
We have branch leaders for the different disciplines, these folks are heading up the groups
Kate Gathercole Will be heading up the music project, she hopes to work with bands and choirs to create an interesting program of musical events scattered through the calendar.
Libby Vale Will be creating exhibitions and arts events, working in the project space with Rebecca Baddeley, creating and organising workshops for all.
Bertram Holt Will be inviting folks to come and join in poetry workshops with them and other poets including Marcus Pibworth. You’ll get a chance to perform (if you wish to) in some of our music poetry and film nights.
Alex Hudson Will be seeking film makers of all kinds to create content on theme, short films and to help document this program of events and exhibitions creating a digital legacy of this project.
We thank you for managing to get to the end of this lengthy newsletter and look forward to seeing you in our spaces soon.
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 16th of January until March the 29th.
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
We are very excited to be planning our next exhibition!
It’s an honour to be included as a part of this year’s Three Choirs Festival Art in the City and have been inspired to host an exhibition with works based on ‘Harmony’.
We are looking for artists to get involved and submit all kinds of work for this special show. The show will be held in 7 Gomond Street, the premises in Maylords Orchard that we occupied between January and March. International applications are welcome.
This open call is completely free to enter but will close on Monday 21 July.
If you’re interested to find out more or would like to apply, open the pdf document below,,,,,
We are a collective of 7 artists This is our manifesto:
We
are doing it for ourselves
are not complying to or with the system
are using available resources
don’t need permission
believe that art is play and fun as well as serious
are resisting the pressure of exposure or meeting expectations
recognise the importance of the female perspective
we only have to be good enough
Catherine Wynne-Paton
I work with a range of different artforms, through a blend of collaborative and solo practice such as paint, movement and film. I work with librarians, the public, artists, publishers and art organisations because through observation I noticed an issue in UK libraries and wanted to take action and generate solutions via my practice.
I make objects/installations often associated with performance and short films (often with humour). My MFA research focussed on transitional objects or ‘comfort objects’ for adults. I am developing this further by exploring the current relationship between masculinity and feminism.
Rebecca Farkas
Holding Hands
I make animations, videos, drawings and installations that respond to places, people, stories and memories, always searching for a sense of wonder. This series of exploratory drawings revisits my own memories of a childhood on the circuses where my family lived and worked.
Merbach /1\ Grounded yet elevated: Trig Point 2023
I seek found objects to create assemblages in a site-responsive process, aiming to frame my work within the landscape or architectural context. I use performance and collaborative approaches within my art practice. My work often features a sense of space… place… time… being I seem to be addicted to neon orange …..
My art is the actualisation of my thoughts, ideas, feelings and memories. Making objects is a way of sharing past experiences and exploring future hopes. Found objects, fabrics, phrases, all can provide starting points – midnight meanderings too. As I get older I consider the world I was born into and the prospects of the one I will leave behind.
Wendy Healey
Winged (2024) bird wings wood branches muslin clay plaster wool assorted materials debris soft pastel glue – width 30cms height 54cms diameter 74cms A winged mythical creature emerges from the earth precarious, about to take flight. Physically and psychically teetering Winged personifies vulnerability and robustness.
Inspiration for my making lies in my surroundings and within me. I gather natural and manufactured materials imbued with memory, emotion, myths, dreams intuitively following their sensory rhythm to create forms and non-forms. Re-energised sculpted pieces emerge with a life of their own reflecting on what it is to be human through transformation and emergence.
A mountain is defined as being over one thousand feet (300m) above its surrounding land and usually has a pronounced summit and steeper more defined sides than a hill. A hill is expected to be a more modest rounded undulation in the landscape. Mountains have the connotation that suggests being imposing, rugged, challenging, lofty and superior and are inevitably named edifices, whilst hills carry expectations of approachability, gentler inclines, smoother surfaces, and contours. Most hills have names, but our perceptions are usually more usually of them being less dramatic than their fellow mountains. However, for this project the central subject of each artist’s vision is described as a hill but of course many an artist has sought the sublime among mountains!
One artist’s perfect hill may not be perfect to any other artist. The perfection may lie in obvious symmetry like that of man-made Silbury Hill or the naturally created Whimble. The artist might then seek to capture the visual equilibrium and how it sits within, and inter-relates to, a wider setting. For some artists, these regular profiles could be too harmonious to stimulate prolonged attention or a satisfying artistic response. Hills as subject matter certainly occupy a distinct place in the history of British culture and not only in Romantic art often linked to the study of light, atmosphere, and questions of national and personal identity. Richard Wilson pioneered the depiction of hills in British art in his travels through Wales, followed by William Gilpin’s ‘Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales Relative chiefly to the Picturesque Beauty’ of 1782.
A perfect hill may be one that offers the artist easy accessibility with a variety of features or appearances that change through time, weather and viewing position, allowing the artist to visit regularly to capture the moods of the season, or hill, or artist. Perhaps perfection lies in the hill offering difficult access to its personality with characteristics that are seldom able to be glimpsed and recorded by the artist twice due to regional climate fluctuations or the changing vegetation or interactions of humans on its terrain through farming, quarrying or leisure activities. The notion of what is presented as a perfect hill will vary from artist to artist in that there is a connection and identification with a particular hill that may be because of geographic circumstance, historical, environmental or personal reasons.
Contributing artists will include: Jonathan Adams, Caroline Allen, Helen Arthur, Peter Bishop, Bryony Burns, Steve Cass, Adrienne Craddock, Tim Craven, Celia de Sera, Brian Griffiths, Bill Evans, Richard Gilbert, Veronica Guest, Sarah Harding, Lois Hopwood, Pip Jones, Andy Johnson, Charles MacCarthy, Andrea McLean, Fiona McIntyre, Katherine Moore, Ronald Moore, Fiona Potter, Rebecca Reynolds, Stuart Roper, Charles Sainsbury-Plaice, Susan Smith , Miranda Whitten-Walker, Matt Williams, Matthew Wood
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Veronica Guest ‘Weaving’ Shetland wool
Helen Arthur ‘Crib y Garth, gloaming, ink on paper 2024
Ronald Moore ‘Aspers Wood from Merbach Hill’. oil on canvas
Sarah Harding, ‘Bromlow, Callow’ Tempera on panel
Stuart Roper, ‘Sunrise on Cwm Sanaham’ oil on canvas
