Highlights

You Belong Here: Talks, tours & extended exhibition dates – plus new artwork launched

Great news - our collaborative exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery has been extended to Spring/Summer 2022

Introducing: Gwen Riley Jones, socially-engaged photographer in residence

Jones joins the Art Collection for 12 months, in partnership with Open Eye Gallery, to ask: "who are the collections for? What stories can they tell? Whose voice can we hear? And how can we think differently about them?"

Energy House: Artist-in-residence project to feature at COP26 showcase

Climate, Retrofitting and Photography: McCoy Wynne to Exhibit at COP26 Universities' Innovation Showcase

Do you have a favourite tree in Salford?

Our new commission with Salford based artist Lowri Evans takes inspiration from the trees around the city. Submit your favourites to the #SalfordTree inventory - and look out for participatory sessions in Autumn!

A still from an artists' video. Three identical images are shown side by side. They show a pair of hands sculpting a piece of clay on a potters wheel. Each image has a different text caption written in white text. The first reads 'holding', the second reads 'sound of remembering fondly' the third just has three asterisk * stars

Online exhibition: INTERTWINED featuring Seo Hye Lee

VITAL CAPACITIES by VIDEOCLUB: Introducing a new video work by co-commissioned artist Seo Hye Lee, alongside new works by fellow residency artists Linda Stupart and Laura Lulika

a contemporary artwork image. It shows a stack of 4 ice cubes against a solid black backgroun. Superimposed on or in the ice cubes are black and white images of human eyes and facial features

Announcing: our 2021 Graduate Scholars

Castlefield Gallery and the University of Salford Art Collection announce the five graduate artists awarded a place on their annual scheme: Katie Aird, Daniel Callan, Jeffrey Knopf, Henna Mahmood, Sara Rawat

Interior photo of a gallery exhibition. The image shows a pink wall and a green wall, with small framed artworks hung on them.

Exhibition Opening: ‘You Belong Here’ from 15th July

Book your free tickets now to our new exhibition with Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Salford based artists Lizzie King, Jack Brown, Hilary Jack and Cheddar Gorgeous show new commissions alongside historic works and archives.

A photograph of a television facing forwards and slightly to the left. The television is a black box shape and mounted to a white wall. Coming out from the left and right side of the television are two black tubes. On the screen, the fading words ‘WHAT?’ are repeated three times overlapping on top of each other at different angles.

Announcing: New online residency with artist Seo Hye Lee and Vital Capacities

Artist Seo Hye Lee draws from her hearing loss experience to explore hearing, listening, communication and mis-communication, in this new digital residency programme - from 1st June 2021.

Do you remember the Manchester Print Workshop?

The Manchester Print Workshop was based at the University in the 1980s - and produced a vibrant body of work. Did you work, study or visit during the time - and have any memories to share?

Announcing: The Storm Cone by Laura Daly

New Augmented Reality artwork The Storm Cone launches in Peel Park in May 2021 - featuring staff, students and friends of the University of Salford