The rising cost of living in Hackney has claimed another victim. The Open East Art School has been forced to move to Kent after the cost of rent became too much for the owners.
The art school based in east London, which provides free tuition and workspaces for artists, has closed its doors after three years at Rose Lipman Centre in De Beauvoir.
Co-founder Anna Colin told City News she was devastated that Hackney has become too expensive for young artists.
Sponsored by the Barbican and Create London, the school has been created in response to the increase in university tuition fees and the rising cost of living in London. Now the school is not anymore to afford itself the London life.
The school will now be in Margate, 75 miles to the Kent coast.
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The rising cost of living in Hackney has claimed another victim. The Open East Art School has been forced to move to Kent after the cost of rent became too much for the owners.
The art school based in east London, which provides free tuition and workspaces for artists, has closed its doors after three years at Rose Lipman Centre in De Beauvoir.
Co-founder Anna Colin told City News she was devastated that Hackney has become too expensive for young artists.
Sponsored by the Barbican and Create London, the school has been created in response to the increase in university tuition fees and the rising cost of living in London. Now the school is not anymore to afford itself the London life.
The school will now be in Margate, 75 miles to the Kent coast.
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