Great Minds at the Gas Works ; with Affordable Studio Space Increasingly Hard to Find, More of London's Bright Young Artists, Photographers, Painters and Writers Are Getting Their Creative Spark by Going Communal

Evening Standard - London › November 06, 2006

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THE artists had the idea first, of course. Years ago they moved out of their lonely garrets and into communal studio spaces run by the likes of the Jerwood Foundation and the Delfina Gallery.

Now London's other creatives are cottoning on to the benefits of the collective workspace. Apart from a relatively low level of rent, shared studios offer freelancers in different creative disciplines the chance to socialise and spark off each other.

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Great Minds at the Gas Works ; with Affordable Studio Space Increasingly Hard to Find, More of London's Bright Young Artists, Photographers, Painters and Writers Are Getting Their Creative Spark by Going Communal

A model of this white-hot new way of working is the Gas Works, a five-acre sprawl of workspaces hidden in the Bermuda triangle between the King's Road, Lots Road and Wandsworth Bridge Road and surrounded by gasometers venting spumes of semi-liquid gas.

This forgotten corner of SW6 houses more young painters, photographers, composers, writers and elegant idlers p...

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