
Gallery founder Annabelle Byrne, 30, and her boyfriend Brayan Arredondo Moncada, 27, never thought they’d return to the big smoke — or at least not so soon.
After three lockdowns holed up with two friends in a “studenty” flatshare in Walthamstow, the prospect of being able to afford their own place outside of London was too tempting to turn down. Why spend all their earnings on a tiny room in a four-person London flatshare when they could afford a whole flat to themselves outside London — and save enough to one day buy their own house? Dreamier still, they could do so in the vibey seaside town of Margate in Kent.