Art For Sale, Manchester
Where to find art for sale, Manchester
Philips Art Gallery
Established in 1996, the gallery exhibits a broad range of art, mixing modern, edgier work with more conservative, impressionist works. Visit at 14A Tib Lane, Manchester, M2.
Richard Goodall Gallery
Visit the gallery specializing in photography, painting, sculpture, and prints, located at 103 High Street, Manchester (there is a second Richard Goodall specializing in other fields at 59 Thomas Street).
Colin Jellicoe Gallery
The eponymous gallery was founded by the artist in 1963. The galleries policy is to exhibit works by living artists shown in thematically based exhibitions. Works include drawings, paintings, and graphics. 82 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 4QX.
Well known art galleries in Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery – housing the civic art collection of Manchester, the Manchester Art Gallery reopened in 2002 following a significant four-year redevelopment. The collection is comprised of over 25,000 art objects. The gallery is located on Mosely Street, and is usually open Tuesday to Sunday.
Whitworth Art Gallery – boasts a collection incorporating over 55,000 objects, and evolved from the original Whitworth Institute and Park - dating back to 1908. The collection is comprised of historic fine art, prints, modern art, wallpaper, textiles, and sculpture. The Whitworth Art Gallery is located at Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER, and is open Monday to Saturday.
The Lowry opened in April 2000 in the redeveloped Salford Quays. Visual works are combined with performing arts. The permanent collection Lowry Favorites is run alongside a regularly changing series of exhibitions.
Chinese Arts Centre - The international agency for the development and promotion of contemporary Chinese artists. Established in 1986, and growing in ambition since. Market Buildings, Thomas Street, M4 1EU.
Art Events in Manchester
The Buy Art Fair – The Fair started in 2008, and is considered to have had two successful years. The 2009 fair featured 300 artists from 75 galleries, and ran over three days.
The Manchester Art Crawl. The Crawl runs alongside, but is not part of, the Manchester International Festival. By locating exhibitions in abandoned spaces, the founders have hit on a great idea.
Artists associated with Manchester
L.S. Lowry – much loved for his paintings of the industrial north, where his ‘stick people’ populated urban scenes. Never really interested in the arts business, but admired by many of his contemporaries, and extremely well known and appreciated by the general public. Produced around 1,000 paintings and over 8,000 drawings, many of which varied from the style he was most famous for – including still life and portraiture works.
Harold Riley a celebrated local artist, mentored by and friends with, LS Lowry. Born in Salford on 21st December 1934, Riley specialized in portrait painting and in capturing the flow of Northern English life.
Born in 1917, (James) Lawrence Isherwood was also a contemporary of Lowry. Widely regarded as one of Britain’s best impressionist-expressionist painters, and highly regarded by critics – although his works of celebrities divided them at the time. An introvert who enjoyed privacy, he painted prolifically, and allowed few paintings to be sold. His work is now displayed internationally.
Harry Rutherford - Rutherford’s father was a gifted artists, who helped found the Hyde Arts Group. Encouraged from an early age to participate in visual arts, Rutherford left school to join a lithographic printers in Manchester. Influenced around this time by a friendship with the artist Walter Sickert. By 1930, his career took off when his work "Penzance" was accepted at the Royal Academy. Went on to numerous commissions and exhibitions, but continued to combine this work with newspaper, magazine and television work (including his own children’s television show, running for six years from 1950).