the homeless speak out
so what is art good for? it’s only for middle class gallery visiting types, right? and isn’t publicly funded art a total waste of money that nobody benefits from?
artworks understand the value of art. not million-pound pictures on gallery walls, or vastly funded large scale public artworks, but art in the hands of those who are rarely heard – the homeless, young people in care, residents on estates with drug problems. in their hands art becomes the voice they’ve never had. a montage of photographs, a spray painted mural, a self-penned performance – this is art with true power. art with powerful truth. this is the kind of art artworks deal in.
our design work for artworks has often been to communicate the end results of creative events where they have connected people with artists to help them tell their story. problem is, you can’t necessarily get your decisions makers and money holders along to spend a day with homeless people. so you have to get something interesting and eye-catching onto their desk. that’s where we come in.
budgets for this kind of work are often very tight – this was a one colour print job onto cheap tinted paper with the use of art, photos and crucially the voice of young homeless people to provide the impact. some of the images you can see on the photos here are of young people decorating a tent with stories of where they’ve slept – tracy emin’s tent reimagined with a deeper message.
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