Cultural chaos promised in exhibition

By Nick Horton nickh@westdorsetmag.co.uk

A former derelict engineering factory in the back streets of Weymouth is the unlikely setting for a four-day subversive art event, featuring painting, sculptures, installations, live music and an absolute shedload of cultural chaos. Revolting Artists takes place over the Easter weekend of April 7-10 at St Nic’s Gallery in St Nicholas Street, Weymouth.

The gallery has hosted various events over the past couple of years but this is its most ambitious and most diverse with some 70 artists exhibiting and a host of street painters, graffiti artists, performance poets, musicians, DJs and photographers involved. It’s been a real labour of love for BOD, the

As BOD tells me: “I came down to Weymouth from the East Midlands around four years ago and was keen to get involved in the local arts scene.

“But it soon became apparent that there wasn’t one. I was tired of seeing paintings of boats, the sea (‘What do you expect to see out of a Weymouth guest house window?’ to paraphrase Basil Fawlty…)

“I’ve always been into subversive art and as no one else was doing it down here, I