home portfolio biography   artist profile personal statement buddhism hoxton & shoreditch the ditch magazine photo call art blog news & exhibitions buy & commission contact   In 1992, Gordon Faulds moved to London, to a studio in Charlotte Road, Hoxton. Next door to where the Prince Charles Foundation is now situated. Into the first half of the 1990's, a genuine artistic community existed in Shoreditch/Hoxton, where the majority of residents were involved in the creative industries. Life here was extremely sociable and the subject for the paintings shifted to people, embarking on a series of portrait drawings and paintings. These are like documents of a moment in time because the dynamic of that community lasted only a few years before it became dispersed. At the same time he edited and published The Ditch, an eclectic ‘village' magazine, which showcased creativity in the Shoreditch/Hoxton neighbourhood.                   7-8 Charlotte Road, DJ's: Crispin & Tim 'Love' Lee Public Views 2 These photographs were part of a short exhibition at The Architectural Foundation, The Economist Building, 30 Bury Street, London SW1 in January 1997. The brief was 'Boundaries'; asked to contribute, as editor of The Ditch magazine, my take on the theme was to document a cross-section of those working and living, (unofficially) in the Hoxton-Shoreditch neighbourhood. At the point where that community was being obliged to move out of the spaces as the demand to develop loft style apartments increased, exponentially.