Go to Stratford, East London, come out of the station and you’re presented with the Westfield shopping centre. Across over 2.5 million square feet, nearly 300 retailers submerge you in the horrors of life in a modern city. But in June if you turned the other way and stepped into an abandoned Sainsbury’s, you’d have found something else. On old parquet flooring scratched by years of shoes and trolleys, 31 artists put on a show, 2 For 1, filling the space with sculptures and paintings. In a city as expensive as London, a show like this can be a pipe dream for young artists.
“You’re renting a studio that costs almost the same as your room in