Artist Adam Dant receives eviction notice for demolition of his ‘squalid’ studio
For 25 years the artist Adam Dant has been turning a sardonic pencil on the gentrification of London, recording the slow death of the greasy spoon and the market barrow and the fast rise of artisan tofu and cold brew coffee, in a series of beautiful maps – all made in the studio in Shoreditch, east London, which he describes as “a semi-derelict, vacant, mildewed, dank, gimped and squalid edifice”.
But now the inevitable has happened: he is under notice of eviction, and the tiny building, overshadowed by giant cranes and towering blocks of shiny new offices and apartments, is to be demolished.
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