Hope Begins With A Home

Hope Begins With A Home opens at the Melville Building in Royal William Yard on Saturday 10 October, running through to Sunday 18 October. It's a community exhibition put together by Path, the Plymouth homelessness charity, with support from Ocean City Arts, and it's staged as part of Homelessness Action Week.

If you've followed Path's work over the last couple of years, this will feel like a familiar thread. It follows on from their project last year, the There's No Place Like Home mural and community gallery, so it's a continuation of the same conversation rather than a one-off. For this edition, Path put out a call to artists, makers and creatives from across the city, asking them to respond to the themes of home, hope and homelessness. What's on the walls is the result of that call: a collection that pulls together painting, photography, textiles and text-based work.

Because it's a community exhibition, the work comes from a wide range of people across Plymouth rather than a single artist, and the mix of mediums means you'll see everything from paintings and photographs to textile pieces and written work. The common thread is the prompt Path set out — home, hope and homelessness — so while the styles will be all over the place, they're all working from the same starting point.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 October, open 11am to 4pm daily, at the Melville Building in Royal William Yard.