Richard Goodall Gallery

Richard Goodall Gallery is a contemporary fine art, photography and rock poster gallery based in Manchester, United Kingdom. They have been in existence since 2000. In 2007 a second location was added on High Street in Manchester focused on contemporary Art, with the original location on Thomas St, being renamed to Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground, and showing Rock Poster Art and Designer Urban Vinyl. Throughout the year each gallery will show 8-10 independent events, with the occasional one crossing over both galleries.

Lenticular Prints

Richard Goodall Gallery is notable in the creation of Fine Art Lenticular images as large scale art pieces with iconic imagery from the leading contemporary photographers. To date over 50 pieces have been created and the editions are all sold out or close to sold out. They comprise images from Gered Mankowitz, Terry O'Neill, Jay Blakesberg, Michael Spencer Jones and Paul Saltzman. These feature The Beatles, Elvis, Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Sinatra amongst others. They can be seen on permanent display at the Millenia Fine Art Gallery on the Mezzanine level of the Time Warner Building in Columbus Square, New York.

Photography

At its outset Richard Goodall Gallery brought contemporary photography to Manchester as the first large scale accessible gallery in the UK and the only Photography gallery outside of London. Starting with 33 Still Lives by Anton Corbijn^[1] it has shown major exclusive photography exhibitions from Mark Seliger - Platinums ^[2] and Graham Nash^[3]

From Photography to Contemporary Art

From photography they expanded into contemporary painting showing exhibitions of Eelco Brand, Detroit Based Low Brow Pop Culture Artist Niagara and Underground Graffiti Artist Dalek^[4]

The Rock Poster Explosion

With the success of the new shows Richard Goodall Gallery dedicated an entire floor of the gallery to the new genre of Rock Poster Art. This covered the new wave of the American based artists that were creating the next generation of music posters in the tradition of the sixties poster artists of San Francisco's Family Dog and Bill Graham Presents and Detroit. The likes of Wes Wilson, Moscoso, Mouse & Kelley, Garry Grimshaw and Dennis Loren.

This new art form started again with Frank Kozik and Coop in the late 90's and continues today with a whole new generation of artists. The Richard Goodall Gallery and now the new Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground is the only gallery in the UK exhibiting this work.

The new work was showcased in a number of exhibitions most notable in the Post Neo Explosionism show with Emek, Justin Hampton and Jermaine Rogers which featured an in-store appearance by Queens of The Stone Age, the subject of much of the work^[5] ^[6]

It has also shown rock art exhibitions by Rob Jones which also launched the Orchestral White Stripes record Aluminiun^[7]. Two Exhibitions from Jay Ryan Squirrels Taking Risks in 2004 and Mammals Making Lists in 2005. Jay Ryan will be back with his wife Diana Sudyka in December 2007 for their 3rd Exhibition.

Emek was back in 2007 for a stealth one day exhibition in 2007 which also featured an in-store surprise appearance by Get Cape Wear Cape Fly who was premièring songs from his new upcoming record.

The New Locations

In June 2007 Richard Goodall Gallery opened its second 2500 sqaure foot gallery at 103 High Street in Manchester, taking the Richard Goodall Gallery name, the original gallery is renamed Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground and is focused solely on Rock Poster Art, Urban Vinyl and Affordable Contemporary Art