Richard Goodall Gallery
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The Richard Goodall Gallery is a contemporary fine art, photography and rock poster gallery based in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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. They have been in existence since 2000. In 2007 a second location was added on High Street in Manchester focused on contemporary fine art, with the original location on Thomas St, Richard Goodall Gallery 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 work from 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
Gered Mankowitz
Gered Mankowitz is a British photographer of the rock music scene over the last 40 years. Some of his portraits of rock musicians, such as The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Slade, are now part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.-Personal life:His father was the late...

, Terry O'Neill
Terry O'Neill (photographer)
Terry O'Neill is an English photographer, who achieved his greatest success documenting the fashion style, and celebrities of the 1960s. He attracted attention for photographing his subjects in unconventional or candid settings....

, Jay Blakesberg
Jay Blakesberg
Jay Blakesberg is a San Francisco-based photographer & filmmaker.-Biography:His suburban youth was spent mostly in Clark, NJ, where he first discovered a passion for taking pictures...

, 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
Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...

 it has had exhibitions from Mark Seliger - Platinums and Graham Nash.

Contemporary and street art

From photography they expanded into contemporary painting showing exhibitions of Dalek
Dalek (artist)
James Marshall , better known as Dalek, is an American artist and designer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dalek has had two books published of his artwork, as well as being included in many other books and magazines...

,Eelco Brand, Niagara
Niagara (artist)
Niagara is a musician and a painter. She was the lead vocalist of the punk rock bands Destroy All Monsters and Dark Carnival.-Biography:...

, Kendra Binney, Yumiko, Sas Christian, Colin Christian, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters and others. This new focus is bringing world wide street art and contemporary art to the British public.

The rock poster explosion

With the success of the new shows Richard Goodall Gallery dedicated an entire floor of the gallery to rock poster art. This covered the new wave of the American 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 new work was showcased in a number of exhibitions, most notably the Post Neo Explosionism show with Emek
Emek
Emek is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator designs concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene...

, Justin Hampton and Jermaine Rogers which had an in-store appearance by Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

, the subject of much of the work.

It has also shown rock art exhibitions by Rob Jones which also launched the orchestral White Stripes record Aluminiun.

Toys and urban vinyl

The Richard Goodall Gallery on Thomas St has designer urban vinyl and toys from around the globe: Kidrobot
Kidrobot
Kidrobot is a producer and retailer of designer toys founded in 2002 by Paul Budnitz, specializing in artist-created toys and imports from Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe. Kidrobot also makes Kidrobot Mascots, which are figures of their main logo. These figures are usually nicknamed KR and the number...

, StrangeCo, Toy2R
Toy2R
Toy2R is a designer toy company based in Hong Kong that was founded by Raymond Choy in 1995.-History:Choy spent 10 years as an employee of an American footwear company. During his tenure there, he developed skills in general business operation, especially quality control...

, Jamungo, 3A, Toy2r
Toy2R
Toy2R is a designer toy company based in Hong Kong that was founded by Raymond Choy in 1995.-History:Choy spent 10 years as an employee of an American footwear company. During his tenure there, he developed skills in general business operation, especially quality control...

, Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik is an American graphic artist who has worked with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melvins, The Offspring and Butthole Surfers. Kozik runs Man's Ruin Records, a media outlet and record label, and has published several books including Man's Ruin:...

, and Mindstyle.

The work they show in the vinyl format crosses over with prints and paintings by the same artists. They are also strong proponents of producing exclusive works and have had gallery exclusive pieces from Dalek
Dalek (artist)
James Marshall , better known as Dalek, is an American artist and designer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dalek has had two books published of his artwork, as well as being included in many other books and magazines...

 and Frank Kozik in 20" Dunny's, Smorkin Labbits and Ice Bots. There have been a number of exhibition that have included vinyl pieces Dalek, Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, and special signings and openings for the French Dunny series and 3 Bears Dunnys with Jon Burgerman
Jon Burgerman
Jon Burgerman is an English artist and illustrator.-Life and work:Jon Burgerman was born August 8, 1979, in Nottingham, UK. He studied art foundation in Bournville, Birmingham, England, and then Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University....

, I Love Dust and Tado.

They also show custom toys with Kathie Olivas having 20 custom vinyl pieces at her show, and Dalek producing a custom Munny for the show.

Expansion

In June 2007 Richard Goodall Gallery opened its second 2500 square feet (232.3 m²) gallery at 103 High Street in Manchester, taking the Richard Goodall Gallery name, the original gallery is renamed Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground and sells rock poster art, urban vinyl and affordable contemporary art

Exhibited artists

* Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...

* Terry O'Neill
Terry O'Neill (photographer)
Terry O'Neill is an English photographer, who achieved his greatest success documenting the fashion style, and celebrities of the 1960s. He attracted attention for photographing his subjects in unconventional or candid settings....

* Gered Mankowitz
Gered Mankowitz
Gered Mankowitz is a British photographer of the rock music scene over the last 40 years. Some of his portraits of rock musicians, such as The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Slade, are now part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.-Personal life:His father was the late...

* Jamie Baldridge * Jay Blakesberg * William Ellis
William Ellis
William Ellis may refer to:*William Ellis * Sir William Charles Ellis MD , physician, pioneering superintendent of asylums and Methodist lay preacher...

* Bill Armstrong
Bill Armstrong
William Harold Armstrong is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in one NHL game for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1990–91 NHL season and spent the rest of his professional career in the AHL and IHL. Armstrong played collegiately at Western Michigan University from...

* Ray Caesar * Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, and Texas A&M University–Commerce. Seliger served as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone from 1992 to 2002 and...

* Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

* Niagara
Niagara (artist)
Niagara is a musician and a painter. She was the lead vocalist of the punk rock bands Destroy All Monsters and Dark Carnival.-Biography:...

* Kendra Binney * Ben Allen * James Marshall (Dalek)
* Sas Christian * Colin Christian * Brandt Peters * Federico Gonzales * Jordin Isip * David Oxtoby * Ralph Starkweather
* Ronnie Wood * Kathie Olivas * Yumiko
Yumiko
Yumiko is a feminine Japanese given name.-Possible writings:Yumiko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*弓子, "bow, child"*由美子, "reason/cause, beauty, child"*結実子, "fruition, child"*夕実子, "evening, fruit, child"...

* Jeff Soto
Jeff Soto
Jeff Soto is an American contemporary artist. His distinct color palette, subject matter and technique have been said to bridge the gap between Pop Surrealism and Street Art.-Early life:...

* Grant Barnhart * Tim Biskup
Tim Biskup
Tim Biskup is an American artist generally considered to be a part of the group that has been dubbed "lowbrow" or pop surrealism...

* Central Station Design
Central Station Design
Central Station Design is a Mancunian design company usually associated with Factory Records and the Madchester scene of the early 1990s. The company created album cover artwork and posters for Factory artists, especially the Happy Mondays. Their design for the Happy Mondays' Madchester Rave On...

* Nicoletta Ceccoli * Donald Topp * Curtis Jobling
Curtis Jobling
Curtis Jobling is a British illustrator and animator, born in Blackpool, England but lives in Warrington.He is best known for his role as production designer of children's TV hit, Bob The Builder, where he visualised all of that programme's inimitable characters and sets...

* Scott Radke * Nick Vessey * Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...

* Rick Griffin
Rick Griffin
Richard Alden Griffin was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best known...

* Rob Jones * Jay Ryan
Jay Ryan (artist)
Jay Ryan is a poster maker and rock musician. He is noted for his squirrel posters as well as being a bassist in the band Dianogah....

* Emek
Emek
Emek is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator designs concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene...

* Justin Hampton * Jermaine Rogers * Jesse LeDoux
Jesse LeDoux
Jesse LeDoux is a notable artist who has created album covers for many bands. LeDoux currently works out of his studio in Tokyo, Japan.-Some of Jesse LeDoux's album covers:*Dolour Waiting for a World War LP...

* Tyler Stout
* Leia Bell * Brad Klausen * Aaron Horkey * The Small Stakes * Diana Sudyka * Jeff Kliensmith * Burlesque of North America
* Daniel Danger * Todd Slater * Nick Rhodes * Mike King * Gary Houston * Bobby Dixon * Decoder Ring Design Concern

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