Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has just marked it's 100th year, but the organisers of a new gallery in Worthing have slightly more modest ambitions.
The Revolutionary Arts Group are planning a Pop-Up Gallery, which will be open to the public for just four days. Next Wednesday 1st April, artists will get the keys to a shop in Worthing's Guildbourne Centre, and will open an art gallery the next day. And at the end of Sunday 5th April, the gallery will close its doors for the last time.
The gallery will include gritty black and white photography, dramatic paintings, installation art and digital illustrations. Much of the work will be for sale, and there will be handmade cards, badges and locally-published poetry books too.
It's not a unique project � the group have opened galleries in empty shops before, and are behind a worldwide Empty Shops Network which brings together groups around the world running similar projects.
However, the short time the gallery will be open makes it unusual and while it would be easy to miss, it should be unmissable for local art aficionados.
�We have a crack team of high-speed curators working right now,� says exhibition organiser Dan Thompson, �to make sure we bring together the best contemporary artists for a stunning (if short) show!�.
The Pop-Up Gallery will be in Unit 13, The Guildbourne Centre, Worthing and will be open from 11am-4pm, Thursday 1st -Sunday 5th April.
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