Chichester art gallery on South Street closes after 11 months

KUNST Art Gallery has closed its shop on the Chichester High Street after less than a year.

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00:00Yes, so my name's Bill Strohecker and I've been running the Kunst Art Gallery for nearly a year

00:05now, but unfortunately recently we've been seeing a massive decline in sales and haven't been able to

00:15really support the gallery fully, so we've had to take the sad decision to close. I think that

00:23it's difficult getting support. We get footfall and we get people in the shop, but most people

00:28come along and really love the gallery and love that it's here and love the artworks and posters

00:36etc, but unfortunately people don't seem to have the money to spend on buying that type of thing

00:42at the moment. The idea for the gallery was to have something that was a little bit edgier in

00:47Chichester, a little bit more independent than the corporates, hence the type of artworks,

00:54the street art, the graffiti and supporting local artists as well, but I think that there

01:02still is room for this and hopefully we can plan something else in the future.

01:07All the people that came in and bought things from us and supported us locally, I'd like to

01:12say a massive thank you. I really appreciate what they've done and hopefully we'll still be around

01:19in the future in another form.