Prince William is using art to take his fight for the unhoused to new audiences.
A year into his groundbreaking Homewards project to make homelessness “rare, brief and unrepeated,” a series of artworks have been unveiled to start a new conversation on the topic.
The Saatchi Gallery in the wealthy Chelsea neighborhood of London wouldn’t be the kind of place where audiences would usually expect to see the work of those who’ve experienced the trauma and pain of being without a home or the support and security that brings. But that’s the point of Homelessness: Reframed, which runs from Aug. 7 to Sept. 20.
It aims to counter the images of people often used in charity campaigns and mass media by capturing the complexities of homelessness across the U.K. and forge what the Prince of Wales’ office hopes is a better understanding of the varied stories of those who experience it.
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The art gallery enables Prince William, 42, …