New Worthing gallery to focus on urban, contemporary and pop art

Sabotage has launched as a new gallery in Warwick Street, Worthing, concentrating on urban, contemporary and pop art.

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, group arts editor at Sussex Newspapers.

00:06Lovely this morning to speak to Julie Edwards.

00:08Now a really exciting project, a new art gallery in Worthing.

00:12Sabotage, it's called.

00:13Julie, what's it all about?

00:14What are you setting up?

00:15What are you setting out to do?

00:17Well, we are setting out to bring some counterculture or some new urban art into Worthing.

00:25Worthing has a really, really thriving art scene.

00:29But we've thought we've found a gap where it's missing some of the more modern

00:34or some pop culture or sort of urban art that's sort of a big part of the art scene in Sussex,

00:40but it's not really in Worthing.

00:42So we thought we'd open up something that sort of displays this art.

00:45And it's the three of you together and that's the linking thing, isn't it?

00:49And how brave are you being in setting up a gallery?

00:52I mean, times are quite tough.

00:55It is very tough.

00:58We were very aware of this as we were doing it.

01:03Everybody has to look after essentials.

01:05And, of course, hanging art or objects in your house or in your home is not really an essential.

01:13But at the same time, for artists and for us and for, I guess, for some people,

01:21it's what makes us human.

01:24It's what brings our life together.

01:26It's having something that brings those emotions to us.

01:29Yeah.

01:30So that's what we did.

01:32You've made an encouraging start then with the gallery since you opened.

01:38It's been really well received.

01:40We had an opening party that was very well attended, shockingly well attended, actually.

01:46And since then, we've had a steady stream of clients, a steady stream of people visiting.

01:52We're getting some really good feedback.

01:55We're already having to change some displays because the art is moving on.

01:59But that will be our sort of way of working anyway.

02:03You sort of come in two weeks on the trot and you probably won't see all the same pieces of art.

02:08We want to keep it moving.

02:09We want to keep it evolving.

02:10And we want people to sort of make it a regular stopping point.

02:14Brilliant.

02:15Yeah, of course.

02:16Congratulations on the good, steady, promising start so far and good luck with the future.

02:20Lovely to speak to you, Judy.

02:22Thank you very much.

02:23Thank you very much, Phil.