'I've been making work since I was 18 and now that is gone and all my sketchbooks and my research and any notebooks I ever had are gone.'
An artist has opened up about the devastation that the Belfast city centre fire has caused for her and other creatives who lost their 'life's work' overnight.
"This morning, my friend who was a tenant in the studio across the hall left me a message right before I woke up and then I got a horrible text that said 'please call me back straight away'.""I've been making work since I was 18 and I'm 33 now so all of that is gone and all my sketchbooks and my research and any notebooks I ever had are gone. My family photographs - negatives of photos I took when I was 10 all that stuff was kept in there.
"I believe there is a concrete layer between our part of the building and the bottom floor so we are hoping that at least Never Never, Neighbourhood, the tailor and all the businesses running along the bottom will hopefully be able to operate and get their income back." A GoFundMe page was created in order to support the tenants who had their livelihoods taken from them overnight and in a number of hours, over £5,000 has been raised so far.
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