Tonight is the night for our first FREE performance night, we are excited to present Child Owlet, a previous Hereford resident now living in Weston-Super-Mare, bringing his dark folk vibe to the space, it is truly compelling and vibrant.
Opening up the evening is Bertram ‘that Geeza bird’, they will be rapping their poetry, with commentary that will invoke mini sing alongs and dazzling commentary on life today. We will also be showing a couple of poetry reels that have been created by Artlandish members, so a mixed bag of wonderful diversity. We also have an installation in the upstairs space.
It’s FREE IN, so please join us for art, music and poetry – because without you, we are nothing.
We’d love it you could join us for this, we had a wonderful time last week making cardboard houses, so much so we are going to do it all again this Wednesday, a gentle time to craft and create, drinking tea and chatting whilst being busy with our hands.
Drop in any time between 2-6pm Wednesday 4th of February.
Visit our ‘There’s No Place like Home’ exhibition and catch up on the Private View
Check out our new exhibition opportunity ‘Flee’, open for all the community
Create in our free House building workshop, tea and chatter while creating cardboard houses
Attend our first Performance Night, see poetry, film and musical performances for free
Update on Poetry club
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Opening exhibition @ Artlandish, Hereford: ‘There’s no place like home‘ – part of the Here Without Home Project
There’s No Place Like Home is the first exhibition in Artlandish’s three-month community arts project Here Without Home, exploring what it means to live without the safety, comfort, or the certainty of a place to call home.
This opening exhibition reflects on sanctuary, belonging, and identity — asking what ‘home’ is, and how important it is.
Through artwork created with and alongside the community, the exhibition sets the emotional and artistic foundation for the wider project.
Here Without Home will go on to explore homelessness in all its forms, including the often-unseen experiences of: • Sofa surfing and hidden homelessness • Temporary or unsafe accommodation • Street homelessness • People displaced by war and persecution • Families and individuals escaping domestic abuse • Anyone living in limbo, between places, or without stable shelter
There’s No Place Like Home invites visitors to begin this journey with us – to look closely, to listen deeply, and to imagine a community where everyone can belong.
We were all set up and just waiting for people to arrive. Always a scary moment.
Number 7 was full of folks looking at the works and enjoying chatting to each other, we had over 65 people during the course of the evening, and we were very pleased with the reception.
New Exhibition Opportunity
Artlandish Presents a Community Art Exhibition
FLEE: The Suitcase Project
What would you take with you if you had to leave everything behind? Not just the objects you own, but the memories, the hopes, the small comforts that make life bearable.
Artlandishinvites artists and non-artists alike to explore this question through art, music, film and poetry.
These suitcases carry stories in form. Some hold words, some hold music or poetry some hold shapes, some hold the weight of quiet courage. Some are light, some are impossibly heavy.
Each suitcase becomes part of a larger installation: a fragile, temporary neighbourhood of journeys, a map of resilience, of departure, and of hope.
Suitcases can be symbolic vessels that carry what cannot be left behind, or what is needed to survive. The project is about movement, choice, and the intimate reality of leaving.
It honours and includes those who have fled war, abuse, or unsafe homes — and it asks all of us to imagine what it might mean to step into uncertainty, carrying only what matters most.
This is a space to think, to imagine, to feel and share — to consider what we carry with us, and what it means to move forward when home is no longer safe.
How to get involved:
Art
Make a suitcase or use a small suitcase to fill with evocative objects. Hand made, or not, these objects convey a message or perhaps tell a story or express emotion. We can help you do this if you’ve not been in an exhibition before. We invite folks who feel called to this project but haven’t done anything like this before to come to our free sessions at our project space where we can help you to identify and express what you are feeling to achieve your goals in a low pressure environment, in our Project Space on the 27th of January, 3rd of February & the 10th of February at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford. Message info@artlandish.com.uk for more information.
Poetry
Create poetry or submit works that echo the theme. We can help you to do this. Come to our free poetry nights on the 4th of February and the 18th of February where we will be looking at these themes in a low pressure environment, in our Project Space at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford. Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information
Music
Create music with this theme in mind. We have performance events that will allow you to share your music live, or we can use your digital creations in our gallery and to put with short films that folks are creating. Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information.
Film
Make short films, with us or on your own. Tell a story or express emotions connected to this theme. Come to our free film club nights where you can learn to use cameras and how to edit from our team in a low pressure environment, in our project space at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford. Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information.
The only limit is your imagination.
Submissions close on the 14th of February
The exhibition opens with a Private View on Friday 20th February at 7pm and closes on Sunday 8th March at 5pm
How to Submit your work –
Emailinfo@artlandish.co.uk and share ideas, drawings, photos of what you are planning, we are excited to see what you can come up with, this is an inclusive exhibition for artists and non-artists alike so do not feel intimated, all welcome.
House Building Workshop
Join us for a fun housing building workshop, expect tea and chatter and a fun time just making simple crafts. ALL WELCOME.
Our First Performance Evening
Artlandish are pleased to announce our first multi disciplinary performance night, it’s the first of many to come and we would love you to be there. We will be having two live acts and showing some of the poetry films to kick things off, expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained.
Child Owlet will be playing some evocative dark folk, and Bertram the Geeza Bird will be rapping their poetry, which will be bringing the context of the project into focus. As always it’s a free gig so you’d be mad to miss it. Doors at 7pm – be there or be square
Poetry Club Update
Week One; There was a tiny group of five at the first session. We called it ‘the acorn’, in hopes that more folks might come and help us grow into a mighty oak poem machine.
We looked at the form of a modern sonnet, focussing on the subject of ‘doors’, which reflected the lack of privacy that homeless people encounter. We played around with structure and context, then composed and recomposed our poems. Lots of fun, learning and playful experimentation with words was had by all.
By the end of the evening everyone had created something that was special to us.
We’d love for you to join us at the next session on Wednesday 4th February at 7pm, in number 4 Gomond street Hereford.
That’s all for now, keep your eye on the website for more updates, and please do get in touch if you would like to contribute or help out in any way, have any feedback, or would just like to chat about what we’re doing 🙂
Come along to this fun workshop and join the community, a fun house-making workshop to help share the message about the Here Without Home project looking at Homelessness in all of its forms
Artlandish are pleased to announce our first multi discipline performance night, it’s the first of many to come and we would love you to be there. We will be having two live acts and showing some of the poetry films to kick things off, expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained.Child Owlet will be playing some evocative dark folk, and Bertram the Geeza Bird will be rapping their poetry – we will be bringing the context of the project into focus. As always it’s a free gig so you’d be mad to miss it. Doors at 7pm – be there or be square 🙂
Part of the ‘Here without home’ project, this new venture invites all textile artists and embroiderers to get involved, by creating a stitched 10″ fabric square which will form part of an oversized sleeping bag, to be displayed at the ‘Here without home’ exhibition from March 13th – 29th 2026. Fabric squares are available from the workshop at 4, Gomond Street – or feel free to provide your own 🙂 Completed squares can be handed in or posted to:
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:
– If you have already successfully received an email from that address, please just make a quick reply to it saying hi, and add us to your contacts. This will ensure that future emails sent to you will continue to go into your inbox, and not into spam.
– If you *haven’t* received an email, but are on our mailing list, please check your spam folders. If you find any email in there from info@artlandish.co.uk then please move it into your inbox, add us to your contacts, and reply to it with a quick email saying hi 🙂
These steps will ‘train’ the various servers involved to recognise the domain and email address as genuine, and hugely help to minimise any spam issues.
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.
