“eBay is fast becoming the funding scheme of choice for struggling but savvy young artists. Online trading is helping keep emerging talent afloat until the Booker, Turner, Oscar or Mercury comes calling. More and more budding cultural leaders of Britain are turning their edgily attired backs on the notion that you have to suffer for your art. Why waste time in bedsits and on the dole when all you need is a laptop and some spare time to raise cash in the comfort of your kitchen?”