‘My studio costs half my income’: can British art survive soaring rents and property developers?

In London, studio size has halved since 2020, and across the UK artists are campaigning for affordable space. What happens when a country’s creative resources all suddenly disappear?‘There used to be loads of little galleries near this studio, artist-run spaces and a few smaller commercial galleries. Pretty much all of them have gone now, priced out by spiralling rents,” says painter Cathy Lomax.We are chatting over tea in a large, light-filled space near the Trelawney estate,