Our Mission
uneARThed is committed to minimising the stigma around homelessness in our community by sharing the unique experiences of individuals experiencing homelessness through an artistic medium.
Through our own research, we have identified that there are harmful misperceptions about homelessness in our community.
Many people are misled to believe that individuals experiencing homelessness have the capacity to help themselves, but aren’t working hard enough to do it.
In reality, the facts are that homelessness is not a choice.
The vast majority of individuals experiencing homelessness are victims of cyclical disadvantage who have no permanent accommodation through no fault of their own.
The truth is that individuals experiencing homelessness are just like any other member of our community.
They are talented, creative and passionate individuals, who deserve our respect and support as much as anyone else.
uneARThed’s mission is to empower artists experiencing homelessness to take leadership on the issue of homelessness.
One artwork at a time, uneARThed is changing the way our community thinks about homelessness, while at the same time giving the proceeds back to the artists who need it the most.
Our Story
uneARThed was founded in 2017 by a group of university students who wanted to make a difference in their community. Volunteering at their local homeless shelter, they noticed that in a small out of the way room a local art group had formed, made up of individuals who had experienced homelessness.
Art was a way they could socialise and find calm, but it was also a way that they could put their experience of homelessness onto paper to share with the world.
Out of the art room came stunning art that deserved to be hanging in a gallery, but outside that small room, the voices of these passionate individuals were going unheard.
Using the creativity and passion of the artists as inspiration, our founders created a vehicle to amplify the voices in that art room. They created uneARThed to provide a space for artists experiencing homelessness to share their stories with the wider community.
This was the perfect way to show the community what homelessness really looked like and reduce the stigma that prevented the artist’s voices from being unheard in the first place.
Since then, uneARThed has helped artists showcase their work at art galleries, advertise their artwork at markets and communicate their stories through our unique brand.
