Welcome to the New Hoxton ; Only Artists As Successful As Tracey Emin Can Now Afford to Live in the Area They Made Fashionable. If You Want to Find Today's Up-and- Coming Damiens, Head South
Evening Standard - London › July 09, 2004
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CHARLES Saatchi, Britain's most famous collector of modern art, and the downat-heel area of New Cross in south London would appear to have little in common. Where Saatchi and his South Bank gallery reign supreme over the British art world, New Cross is a flyblown, two-mile square collection of Victorian tenements, suburban streets and takeaway restaurants at the bottom of the Old Kent Road.
It sits anonymously between the council estates and warehouses of Deptford to the north, and leafy, prosperous East Dulwich and Blackheath to the south and east. And yet, Saatchi - and other voracious collectors like him - are increasingly regular visitors to this forgotten corner of Lewisham, and for one very particular reason.See the full content of this document
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Welcome to the New Hoxton ; Only Artists As Successful As Tracey Emin Can Now Afford to Live in the Area They Made Fashionable. If You Want to Find Today's Up-and- Coming Damiens, Head South
For this small part of SE14 is the latest and largest enclave of ambitious and talented young artists in the capital. Forget Hoxton, the magniloquent part of east London once so achingly trendy and forever associated with BritArt stars such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
Instead, and seemingly unnoticed, this anonymous area south of the Thames has stolen Hoxton's crown as the truly alternative arts quartier. For more than 10 year...See the full content of this document
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