Walking around the streets of East London's Shoreditch, it’s almost impossible to go unaffected by the area’s vapidly consumerist transformation. A Versace store now sits alongside opaquely pretentious coffee shops, surrounded by a smattering of patronising street art and the last remaining cab offices and off licenses. Where once Shoreditch was an epicentre of radical new change within the British art industry, now it has become a capitalist parody of itself.
When artist Sue…
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