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Comment on East End art galleries forced to go west as local scene ‘dies’ by Ellie Scott
Ellie Scott
Comments for FAD Magazine
I thought this was a one-sided and rather confused article when it
appeared in The Guardian yesterday, and now I am very surprised to see it
turning up on here as well! The galleries
comments included here are from ones that have recently left Vyner Street to relocate in the West End, they are established galleries who can now afford to pay the high West
End rents and tend to only show mid-career artists. They have made their money
and can move on. However within the current recession and economic climate it
is harder for anyone making art seriously to get representation and show their
work unless you are already established. Some of the galleries currently on Vyner
Street I believe offer a real solution, a real place for artists to get their
art into a space and for it to be seen. This is the REAL change taking place on
Vyner Street and this is how art moves forward and changes direction, it will
always challenge and evolve.
The
galleries that have left Vyner Street have created a space, not a vacuum. There
are numerous exciting new gallery spaces opening around Vyner Street that I see
on each First Thursday; a new, vibrant and different type of art scene is
evolving right now.
Please
stop regurgitating such wrongly reported information, and at least include views
from all the other galleries still thriving on Vyner Street – Degree Art, Hada
Contemporary, Cultivate, Dialogue, Press Play House, Wayward, Flying Egg etc.????