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Launch: Wednesday 24 May 2017, 5 – 6pm
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery,  Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU

Exhibition dates: Saturday 20 May – Sunday 19 November
Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 4.45pm; Saturday and Sunday 12 – 4pm
Admission: Free

Celebrating the University’s 50th anniversary What’s in Store? showcases the breadth of the University of Salford Art Collection. The exhibition comprises of artworks from the 1960s to the present day, many of which have not previously been on public display. Artists include L.S. Lowry, Adolphe Valette, Patrick Hughes, Gary Hume, Sarah Hardacre, Lizzie King & Craig Tattershall, Cao Fei and Mishka Henner amongst others.

For further information please see the exhibition page.

Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery,  Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU
Exhibition dates: Saturday 20 May – Sunday 19 November 2017
Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 4.45pm; Saturday and Sunday 12 – 4pm.
Admission: Free

Artists: AAAJIAO, Albert Adams, Claudia Alonso, Maurice Carlin, Li Binyuan with Steve Wade, Patrick Caulfield, Cao Fei, Hang Fen, Louise Giovanelli, Kip Gresham, Sarah Hardacre, Mishka Henner, Matthew Houlding, Patrick Hughes, Gary Hume, Lizzie King & Craig Tattersall, L.S. Lowry, Rachel Maclean, Christian Marclay, Alfonzo Padilla, Jai Redman, Bridget Riley, Harold Riley, Liam Spencer, Thomson and Craighead, Adolphe Valette, Annie Lai Kuen Wan, Liam Young, Chou Yu-Cheng.

Celebrating the University’s 50th anniversary and our growing partnership with Salford Museum and Art Gallery, What’s in Store? showcases the breadth of the University of Salford Art Collection.

The Collection began in 1969 and now contains around 700 works which are stored and displayed for the benefit of students, staff, alumni and the public. This exhibition brings together a selection of work by over 30 artists: from traditional oil paintings by L.S. Lowry and Adolphe Valette; and bold prints by modern British artists including Patrick Hughes and Bridget Riley, to cutting edge contemporary art by local and international artists  such as Sarah Hardacre and Cao Fei.

This is the first time that many of these works have been on public display together. As well as looking back on the origins of the Collection the exhibition also considers the future; what might make the Collection distinctive in years to come?

What’s in Store? features on BBC North West Tonight

What’s in Store? brochure

What’s in Store? A musing from the Museum:  Danny Morrell in conversation with artist Mishka Henner.

A musing on Art by Danny Morrell: On the whereabouts of Mr Lowry: An essay on Danny Morrell exploring L.S. Lowry’s painting Narcia fitting out at the Tyne.

A musing on Art by Danny Morrell: Mr Monsieur in Manchester: often labelled as ‘Lowry’s teacher’ here Danny Morrell argues that Pierre Adolphe Valette was ‘far more than that’.

A musing on Art by Danny Morrell: Room for Albert Adams: Danny Morrell contemplates the work of expressionist artist Albert Adams.

Events Programme

To coincide with the exhibition there are a number of free events programmed. Unless stated otherwise all events take place at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, are drop in, and are free:

Wednesday 15 November 6.30-7.30pm
Whether Seeing is believing: A focus on the optical illusion themes in the exhibition with Danny Morrell.
£3 admission fee.

Thursday 16 November 6.00 – 8.00pm – New Adelphi, University of Salford
Screening of Haze and Fog by Cao Fei in association with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art.

An exhibition of a new work by Shezad Dawood across two sites in Venice to coincide with the 57th Art Biennale (2017). The show marks the launch of Leviathan, a ten-part film cycle conceived and directed by Dawood that will unfold over the next three years.

In dialogue with a wide range of marine biologists, oceanographers, political scientists, neurologists and trauma specialists, Leviathan explores notions of marine welfare, migration and mental health and their possible interconnections.

Episode one of the cycle, Ben, was commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Leviathan – Human and Marine Ecology, with support from The Contemporary Art Society.

View the trailer for Ben.

Exhibition Dates: Thursday 27 April – Friday 14 July 2017
Venue: The International 3, Salford
Gallery opening times: Wednesday – Friday, 12 – 5pm
Admission: Free

WANDERLUST is guest curated by University of Salford alumna Amy Stevenson and takes our Art Collection as its point of departure. The exhibition explores the practice of three artists whose work is bound up with ideas of voyeurism, omitted context, ambiguous journeys and seeing the world from a veiled or altered perspective. Blurring genres, and straddling the space between reality and fantasy – WANDERLUST reveals our inherent desire to let our imagination ‘fill in the gaps’ whilst exposing the allure of obscurity.

WANDERLUST is co-commissioned by The International 3 and University of Salford Art Collection and is presented as part of University of Salford’s Graduate Scholarship Programme and its Commission to Collect Programme. It is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Venue: Open Eye Gallery,  19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1BP
Exhibition dates: 7 April – 18 June 2017
Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Admission: Free

Culture Shifts: Global explores the city and urbanism seen through outsiders’ eyes. Supported by the University of Salford Art Collection, Hong Kong photographer Luke Ching presents Room 118, Titanic Hotel, Stanley Dock, Regent Road, Liverpool, L30AN a series of photographs created during a 10-day residency in Liverpool in January 2017. Titanic Hotel is a renovated 200-year old warehouse, a formerly industrial space converted into somewhere that people inhabit for a short time. Ching transformed an entire newly refurbished hotel room into a pinhole camera, capturing the views of the rapidly transforming docklands from each window.

New work from Wo Bik Wong, one of Hong Kong’s leading female photographers, will also be shown, alongside photos of social housing taken by Derek Man, a London-based photographer flown back to Hong Kong on a commission from Open Eye Gallery. Each artist explores the modern urban environment and unfamiliar cities with fresh eyes.

Our Art Curator Lindsay Taylor is co-curating this exhibition at Open Eye Gallery and the new work by Luke Ching which we are co-commissioning will then enter our art collection.

The exhibition is part of LOOK/17: Liverpool International Photography Festival, titled ‘Cities of Exchange: Liverpool/Hong Kong’.

Interview with University of Salford Art Curator Lindsay Taylor.

Launch: Thursday 6 April 2017, 6pm
Venue: Open Eye Gallery,  19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1BP

Exhibition dates: Friday 7 April – Sunday 18 June 2017
Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Admission: Free

Open Eye Gallery’s ‘Culture Shifts: Global’ exhibition will present new and unseen work from Hong Kong photographer Luke Ching, supported by us (University of Salford Art Collection). The large-scale work was produced by turning an entire hotel room in Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel into a pinhole camera for 3 days.

New work from Wo Bik Wong, one of Hong Kong’s leading female photographers, will also be shown, alongside photos of social housing taken by Derek Man, a London-based photographer flown back to Hong Kong on a commission from Open Eye Gallery. Each artist explores the modern urban environment and unfamiliar cities with fresh eyes.

Our Art Curator Lindsay Taylor is co-curating this exhibition at Open Eye Gallery and the new work by Luke Ching which we are co-commissioning will then enter our art collection.

The exhibition is part of LOOK/17: Liverpool International Photography Festival, titled ‘Cities of Exchange: Liverpool/Hong Kong’.

Launch: Wednesday 22 February 2017, 3.30 – 4.30pm
Venue: New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery,  New Adelphi Building, University of Salford, Peel Park Campus, University Road West, M5 4BR
Admission: Free

Memory is an exhibition to launch the year-long Dear Library project – an initiative conceived by University of Salford Chancellor and writer-in-residence Jackie Kay, to champion libraries and celebrate the breadth of services they offer.

The exhibition takes the University of Salford Libraries, Archive & Special Collections as a starting point. As well as materials relating to the history of the University, the Archive & Special Collections hold a number of unique items relating to late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature, politics and social history. Responding to these collections, Jackie has written three new poems on the theme of truth, authenticity and memory – with recollections of holidays, adventures and journeys to new places as a particular focus.

Artworks from the University of Salford’s Art Collection that reflect on the same themes are also on display alongside the archive materials and new poetry.

Visitors are welcome to add their own thoughts, poems, photographs and memories to the ‘memory wall’ – allowing the exhibition to grow gently and change over the coming months.

Dear Library is a collaboration between the University of Salford Libraries, Archive & Special Collections; University of Salford Art Collection and Salford Community Libraries. The project was inspired by a similar project which Jackie Kay was involved with at the Scottish Book Trust in 2014.

A programme of Dear Library activities, workshops events will take place across Salford throughout the year.

Date: Thursday 16 February 2017, 6 – 7pm
Venue: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art,  Market Buildings, 13 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1EU
Admission: £3 to book tickets

To coincide with her exhibition, Lucida & Lucida II, at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) artist Suki Chan will be in conversation with Dr Adam Galpin, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Salford, to discuss the development of her project Lucida: how her interest in the relationship between the human eye, brain and vision began; her research methodologies and technical challenges. Dr Adam Galpin was one of the scientists who contributed to her 3 channel interactive video work, currently exhibiting at CFCCA. He specialises in tracking eye-movements to understand how people process visual stimuli and has had published work on reading, driving, picture processing, Parkinson’s disease and the use of prosthetics.

Exhibition dates: Friday 27 January – Thursday 9 February 2017
Venue: New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery,  New Adelphi Building, University of Salford, Peel Park Campus, University Road West, M5 4BR
Gallery opening times: Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm
Admission: Free

Art in the Post-truth Era is an exhibition that explores one of the most talked about facets of contemporary culture.  ‘Post-truth’ was hailed by the Oxford English Dictionary as the word of the year in 2016.  It is a word that has come to define our understanding of our social and political experience in the wake of the UK European referendum and the US presidential election.

Post-truth is defined as ‘relating to, or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion or personal belief’.  It has been characterised by fake news stories, conspiracy theories and appeals to prejudice and racism and its dissemination by social media platforms.

The artists in Art in the Post-truth Era explore this new terrain in a variety of media.  The artists have worked collaboratively and are drawn from undergraduate and post-graduate programmes within the School of Arts & Media and include students from Visual Arts, Photography, Graphic Design and Media & Performance.