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University of Salford Art Collection
Welcome to the University of Salford Art Collection – an ambitious and growing collection of over 800 modern and contemporary artworks, founded c1968. We commission new work, support artist development, and host a range of exhibitions and events with a wide range of internal & external partners. Read more about our collection, programme, campus gallery, and latest news here!
Highlights
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Adam Rawlinson
Rawlinson is an abstract painter primarily working in oils. His work explores the natural world, with a particular focus on lichen – a symbiotic natural organism. His new work ‘The birds will sing, that you are part of everything’ is now on show as a part of Catalyst: Celebrating 10 years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme.
Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Lizzie King
Lizzie King uses analogue and digital printmaking and photography to explore the ‘narratives of our human-centred universe’. This work was one of two pieces commissioned for Rediscovering Salford in 2020, a city-wide project inviting artists to respond to green spaces in the city.
Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Jack Jameson
Jack Jameson’s work presents a model utopia, inspired by mythology and folklore. In this world nature prevails, and the ‘forest nymph, water siren and rock troll dwell in in harmony – free to be’. The work combines craft, costume, 3D scanning, printing and rendering, photography, and animation – now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme.
Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Jesse Glazzard
Glazzard is a photographer and creative director working across personal, commercial and editorial fields. Their series LGBT+ Letters serves to counter the ‘complete lack of queer visibility’ the artist was met with upon coming- out while at secondary school; and aims to challenge the ‘stale stereotypes’ that still hamper the LGBTQIA+ community. – now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme.
Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Joe Fowler
‘Call to Industry’ is a ‘tongue-in-cheek exploration of Manchester’s fetishisation of industrial spaces and history, via a parody cult initiation video for an organisation which worships industry’ – now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme.
Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Elliott Flanagan
‘A piece of something bigger’ (2018) is a film by artist Elliott Flanagan, exploring class subcultures, and personal and social histories. It was shown as part of Art Film Season, but is back for CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme.
Read more about it here!
