Our story

Collect high quality artworks associated with the music you love and build a special art collection from a unique genre.

Hypergallery Curator, Emily, in the Hypergallery print room

ABOUT US

Hypergallery is a specialist music-art publisher dealing in limited edition prints from the genre of album cover art. We are devoted to working with the greatest artists associated with this form, from classic album covers to quirky outliers.

Emily has a BA in Fine Art Painting and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. Coupled with her love of music and interior design she brings her experience of life as an artist and her understanding of museum and gallery best practice to overseeing and developing Hypergallery's enviable catalogue.

We're proud of our exciting, diverse and unique collection.

Our longevity is built on the relationships we maintain with our artists and collectors alike. The signed and authenticated prints in our collection give you the chance to express your musical allegiances in a new and sophisticated way.

HYPERGALLERY TIMELINE

2000
Hypergallery Director, Rob Smeaton, met Storm Thorgerson and published the first set of limited edition prints ever from the incredible archive of album covers by Hipgnosis; the era-defining photo-design studio founded by Storm and Aubrey 'Po' Powell. With Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin prints making their way onto collectors' walls, the Hypergallery catalogue expanded to include work by Richard Evans, Alan Aldridge, Peter Corriston, George Hardie and Sir Peter Blake.

The journey into album art history uncovered work being published by The Estate of Jim Flora, Robert Crumb, Dekkel Fine Art, and other individual artists from which we built a collection based on a strict remit that it must be work originally designed for record cover, it must be limited edition, and it must be signed or estate authenticated.

2009
Hypergallery’s growing reputation in the genre brought Peter Gabriel’s Real World to our door, and we embarked on a joint venture to publish fifteen of Peter’s album covers as limited edition prints. With this and many other new projects to be managed, Emily packed up her life in Manchester and moved back to Henley to join Hypergallery full-time.

2013
Emily's first publication was the iconic cover for De La Soul's seminal hip hop album, 3 Feet High and Rising by Grey Organisation founder, Toby Mott. From there she has continued to strengthen and broaden the catalogue, bringing in culturally significant imagery from Central Station Design's definitively 'Madchester' aesthetic, to epic rock-scapes from Ioannis, Phil Manzanera's Corroncho2 project, Alfreda Benge's beautiful paintings for her husband Robert Wyatt and James Marsh's unique catalogue of illustrative covers for Talk Talk.

Rob and Emily at their Flights of Fancy exhibition with work by James Marsh for Talk Talk

2020
Our new exhibition space in Henley-on-Thames gave us the chance to mount regular exhibitions.

A collaboration with Iconic Images gave Hypergallery access to their incredible catalogue, and a series of prints by photographer Ed Caraeff are now available for Hypergallery's collectors to enjoy. Terry O'Neill's work will be the next fruit of this collaboration. Soon, a selection from the Duffy archive, works from Fraser Scott's 'A Gallery' and a follow up to the hugely successful King Crimson collaboration will be available along with other individual gems from the world of music and art.

We continue to proudly celebrate innovative and iconic music-related design from the 1950s onwards, and delight in the growing renown amongst collectors for limited edition prints and album cover art.

View all of our in-house publications here: hgEditions.

Hypergallery is based in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England where prints may be viewed by appointment.

 

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