Chinese Arts Centre & Richard Goodall

I briefly visited the Chinese Arts Centre while I was ambling about in Manchester.

I found the centre itself a little awkward to navigate around, as I wasn’t sure whether I was allowed in some of the rooms, and I was too shy to push them open in case I walked in on someone painting or something and disrupted their artyness. I did have a look around the main gallery room though, which was really interesting, and there were some intriguing pieces just sort of hanging about.

'Civil Diplomacy', by Xinji Liu

This was on the stairs down to the lower floor. The piece is made up of hand grippers, screw hook hangers and acrylic spray paint. Apparently you can pick them right off the wall! I would have been worried about breaking them, so I didn’t get too close. XD

 ‘Everything Must Go’, a recycling project by Foreign Investment.

There’s more information on the site, but there’s going to be an art sale soon of all the pieces the public have made over the course of the project.

Very random I know, but when I reached the lower floor I came across these signs for the toilets. I thought they were quite cute :3

 The artist Tsang Kin-Wah is a conceptual artist who focuses on how one piece of ‘art’ can be misinterpreted and how other people’s perspectives can be altered by one different angle.

Leaflet for the centre. I just wish I’d had more time to look

around, or more confidence to explore at least!

I also stumbled across the Richard Goodall Gallery while I was in Manchester. I’d been walking down one street towards the Chinese Arts Centre and was looking vaguely into windows, before I stopped and went ‘oh I like that cushion!’ and it turned out it was a media print in one of the galleries I’d been looking for in the first place.

I’d say it’s more of a store than a gallery, although they have amazing prints stuck up all over the walls like an art exhibition, and several people were just visiting to have a look around. The building I visited is the ‘original’ gallery (or where it used to be located, at least), although there is a separate gallery of fine art with the same name. 

The Richard Goodall 'Underground' can stand alone as an exhibition though; it sells most of the art on display, a lot of prints and posters but also greetings cards and cushions and strange toys. It’s all very graphicsy if you’re into that sort of thing, and focuses on popular culture, music and films, whether they’re vintage classics or more modern ones like Inception (that one stuck with me; I was thinking about the film for ages afterwards. I should have just bought the poster).

Next update will probably be another artist, or cake. Cake is always the alternative, remember this. Thank you for dropping by~ <3