We spoke a short while back about the wonderful Sketch City and The Upper Space gallery. Last month they were hit with a considerably unpleasant problem.

As mentioned, we love Sketch city and all who are involved in it, and now the gallery has been forced into a god awful situation, namely a forced eviction.

Here’s the blurb:

“Upper Space employees arrived to work on the 3rd of December to find the doors to the building chained and padlocked, the dispute, between the owners of the building and Sunshine Studios has resulted in Upper Space being given the options of paying 50% more rent or closing.

With no forewarning being given at all to the events of the morning, Upper Space has been temporarily occupied by members of the collective until we can remove the artists work and our possessions from the building and relocate to a new premises.”

A petition is available to raise awareness on whats going on and to help gather some support for the folks to find a new home.  Get signed up to it as soon as possible and help to have Upper Space back in action again!

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