Creating /Collecting /Collaborating

University of Salford Art Collection

Welcome to the University of Salford Art Collection website. This growing art collection has existed for 50 years and is for the benefit of staff, students and the public.  The Collection contains around 700 items which are stored and displayed on campus and are available for loan to museums and galleries in the UK and internationally.

Highlights

Shifting Perspectives

Selected works from Critical & Contextual Studies and the University of Salford Art Collection.

An optical illusion painting, featuring a wall of books, a wall of paintings, a door and a beach in the background.

Everything I Have Is Yours, Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive)

Coming soon: Everything I Have Is Yours is an ambitious film and sound that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62).

A film still of three women stood singing at microphones.

Acquired: a century of collecting

Exploring the art collections of Salford Museum and Art Gallery and the University of Salford.

Painting of tower blocks.