The movement can also point to some sympathisers who are both young and respected visual artists such as Fiona Rae, Callum Innes and the fashionable Purdy Hicks Gallery in London.
The six groups with reduced funding are Southampton's Turner Sims Concert Hall, John Hansard Gallery and Nuffield Theatre, The Anvil in Basingstoke, Southampton-based Art Asia and the Aspex Visual Arts Trust, based in Portsmouth.