
In May, a report by A-N The Artists Information Company, titled Structurally F–cked, found artists in the public sector were paid a median of £2.60 an hour. Uncapped rents are driving creatives home to their parents, cuts to art education deepen and galleries grapple with spiralling costs.
And yet, the kids - while not alright, per se - are hungry as ever to be involved. A new wave of disruptors are rising; found in Peckham studios and the bars of the Serpentine and National Gallery’s no-holds-barred summer parties alike.