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-> Click here for image Credits:

1 – The Art Collection Team, November 2023. Courtesy of Jason Lawton Photography.
2 – Group photo at Hot Bed Press. Courtesy of Helen Wewiora.
3 – Mishka Henner, March 2024 Studio visit. Courtesy of Sam Parker.
4 – David Hancock at ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ conference. Courtesy of Sam Parker.
5 – Graduate Scholar Jess Robinson Studio Visit (June 2025). Courtesy of Sam Parker.
6 – Energy House 2.0: Mishka Henner & Emily Speed. In-conversation event. Courtesy of Sam Parker.

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2 years have flown by! I’ve loved my time with the Art Collection and learnt so much along the way. From spreadsheets and meetings to manual handling and collections care, and even being able to develop my coding and documentary photography skills.

I’ve worked alongside artists, academics, and professionals alike; on exhibitions, projects, events, and programmes. I went from knowing that I wanted to be hands-on in the art sector, to being quite literally hands-on with everything. Both Steph and Lindsay have helped me immensely with my knowledge and conduct within the sector, but also with pointing me in the right direction and giving me every opportunity to learn and figure out where I was going.

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1- Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? Our time, Our place – install.
2 – Harold Riley Studio.
3 – Installing Theo Simpson’s work at Castlefield Gallery.
4- Installing Hayley Suviste’s Artist In Residence Project at the UoS Acoustics Laboratories.
5 – Installing Darren Almond’s work at ‘Between the Earth and the Sky’.
6 – Installing Mishka Henner’s work at Castlefield Gallery for Energy House 2.0: Mishka Henner & Emily Speed.
All above images courtesy of Sam Parker.

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I remember my first week on the job was collecting artwork from Howard Riley’s studio, and then straight into the install of Craig Easton’s: Is Anybody Listening? Our Time, Our Place with the Northern based Museum & Gallery transport and installation company; M&G. I loved install season whilst I was a student, and I think being thrown right into the thick of it with the Art Collection very much set a spark on where I wanted to go with my career.

From then on, I helped with every install, take-down, and manual handling job I could get with the Art Collection; working on many projects both big and small. Most recently was the Energy House 2.0: Mishka Henner & Emily Speed exhibition at Castlefield Gallery as a conclusion to their Residency with Energy House Labs at the university. This tested me immensely in both problem solving for the set-up of Mishka’s tree-root-like structure of cables and wires fanning out across the ceiling of Castlefield Gallery, as well as coding the ever-frustrating Raspberry Pi’s. Along with this is something you should all go and see, which is an exhibition I have curated as one of my final actions during this role – currently on display until January 31^st 2026 in the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery; Mediated Realities.

Because as well as being hands-on, the Art Collection has given me many opportunities to expand my knowledge and dive head-first into art and politics. From in-conversation events with Craig Easton, to Symposium events like the Contemporary Photography From Ukraine symposium presented at the University in March of last year. Being able to witness and be a part of all of this has kept my mind sharp as well as my manual handling skills.

My time with the Art Collection has been an immensely useful and enjoyable experience, I’ve learnt so much, been able to hone skills I already have, and I’ve even managed to get a few laughs now and then during times of crisis.

I hope that the next candidate will take full advantage of the breadth of opportunities this position affords them.

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August 2025

We’re delighted to announce five new participants in the University of Salford Art Collections’ Graduate Scholarship Programme: Henry Collier (BA Fashion Image Making and Styling), Charlie Currid (BA Fine Art), Andrea Lowe (MA Socially Engaged Practice), Portia Wilkins (BA Fine Art), and Anni Kay Wilkinson (BA Photography).

Delivered in partnership with Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, the long-running programme grants bespoke support packages to graduating BA and MA students from the University of Salford School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology. Aiming to support graduates to develop a career in the arts sector, each 12 month award can include: mentoring, coaching, research trips, studio space, membership of Castlefield Gallery Associates, and a bursary for research, materials or travel. At the end of the scheme, each artist has the opportunity to have work acquired into the University’s permanent collection.

“The Scheme has supported more than 50 artists since 2014, and it has been a pleasure and privilege to see our talented graduates develop their independent practices. We received a high number of strong applications this year, and are pleased to be able to award graduates from across a range of courses: BA Photography, Fine Art, FIMS, and MA Socially Engaged Practice. We very much look forward to working with this year’s artists, in partnership with Castlefield Gallery” Stephanie Fletcher, Curator.

This years’ programme is co-ordinated by artist and writer Elliott Flanagan, who graduated from BA Visual Arts at the University in 2017 and took part in the scholarship scheme in 2017-2018.

Find out more about the artists below, and about the scheme here.

“I’m delighted to be awarded the scholarship opportunity and excited to utilise it to continue to develop my practice. The scholarship, for me, enables me the space and support to develop at a professional level along with the tools to do so. The support of a creative community in a real-world professional context beyond that of the educational setting. It is also accessible and supportive in terms of providing a platform despite being a working sole parent.” – Andrea Lowe, MA Socially Engaged Art Practice

“I’m so excited and honoured to join the scheme. I feel I can make the most of the connections made and things learnt while studying Fine Art at University, and I can explore new facets to my practice in a critical environment.” – Charlie Currid, BA Fine Art

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Image credits:

1)Self portrait in bathroom mirror in a petrol station, 2025, by Henry James Collier
2) Charlie Currid in the studio, courtesy the artist
3) Andrea Lowe in the studio, courtesy Helen Constantinou
4) The Sheep Pilgrim, Portia Wilkins, courtesy the artist
5) Fire Pit, Anni Kay Wilkinson, courtesy the artist

Mediated Realities
1 September 2025 – 30 January 2026
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
Free entry

What does it mean to witness crisis in the digital age? This powerful exhibition brings together works from the University of Salford Art Collection and university staff, exploring how conflict, disaster and protest are filtered through news and social media. Featuring artists including Richard Hamilton, Joe Tilson and Thomson & Craighead.

Mediated Realities is co-curated by Team Assistant Sam Parker, as part of a two-year traineeship role with the Art Collection Team. The exhibition is open from 1st September 2025, with a special evening opening event 4.30 – 7.00 8th October 2025 co-inciding with our MA Art & Design Degree shows.

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A new artist development opportunity for emerging and early-career artists who want to explore creative technologies

Project dates: Monday 22nd – Friday 26 September 2025, 10am – 6pm
Deadline to apply: 11th August 2025
Fees: £250 participation bursary available; and up to £5000 for one selected commission
More information and apply now: at the Lowry website

Are you an early career or emerging creative connected to Salford and committed to learning about creative technology? (CreaTech) 

This opportunity is for artists from any non-digital discipline who would like to develop their practice and discover new ways of making. You may have taken initial first steps into the tech space, but no experience is required.

Taking place from Monday 22nd – Friday 26 September 2025, 10am – 6pm at the University of Salford’s DevLab in MediaCity, the project will include participatory workshops, practice development and a commission opportunity.

You will have the opportunity to explore a variety of applications and test out new ideas in a supported peer to peer learning environment, with a chance to share ideas, explore collaborations and pitch projects for further development. 

We encourage you to bring your current practice with you, whether that be illustration, performance art, ceramics, visual art, dance, textiles etc, we are able to accommodate for a variety of mediums, you will have the opportunity to tell us more in your application.

Across four days,  along with four other participants, you will take part in one participatory workshop per day with the following CreaTech specialists:

Mishka Henner 

Vicky Clarke

Noelle Nurdin

Hattie Kongaunruan

On the final day, all participants will be encouraged to develop and pitch a solo or collaborative project idea based on your learning.  The University (University of Salford Art Collection and University of Salford School of Arts, Media, & Creative Technology) will then select one project to be further developed for showcasing at the Beyond Conference Day 0 event in November 2025

The successful project will receive funding of up to £5k (from University of Salford Art Collection) to cover artists time and production costs, as well as access to facilities and technical support from the University of Salford School of Arts, Media, & Creative Technology.  

The artwork (an edition or element of) developed for Beyond Day 0 will then be acquired by University of Salford Art Collection.  

The remaining participants will have the opportunity to share their work in progress as part of wider fringe events at Beyond and everyone will receive a free ticket to the BEYOND Conference.

Find out all the latest information, including how to apply, at The Lowry website here.
Deadline: 11th August 2025

June 2025

A digital showcase of a selection of works made by University of Salford BA Photography students, in response to the works and themes of gallery exhibition Between the Earth and the Sky. With a curatorial statement by Collection Intern Eran Voisey.

Works are also on display in the New Adelphi Building – Atrium large screen from Monday 23rd June to Friday 25th July; plus a selection of printed works by Will Rowe selected for exhibition in the Clifford Whitworth Library, ground floor display case.

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Reflections: Between the Earth and the Sky highlights lens-based artworks created in response to the exhibition Between the Earth and the Sky. In kinship with their initial inspiration, these artworks further explore the natural world and what it means to us as individuals. From being captivated by minute details, to exploring vast landscapes, or getting lost in contemplation, the featured artists invite you to reflect on how you interact with nature and how it influences you.

Through rippled and sunkissed waters, Natasha Judge and Jamey Cassidy remind us of the beauty and romance of the natural world. Meanwhile, photographic prints by Archie Gifford, and Katie Hunter call on us to be aware of humanity’s impact on nature. Similarly, Luke Speakman’s images (and photobook made from non-recyclable waste) emphasizes the importance of preservation and sustainability.

By getting up close and personal, Amelia Sampson and Levi Brown find beauty in the intricacies of leaves and ice – noticing what is often missed in a modern, fast-paced lifestyle. Additionally, Pavani Chandana makes fleeting moments tangible through the use of animated cyanotypes.

With the use of distorted reflections and brushed cyanotypes to evoke powerful emotions, Kiera Jones and Will Rowe explore the conceptual themes of fantasy and memory, and withdrawal and seclusion. Inspired by ancestral practices, Jarvis Best and Eran Voisey, using moving image and photographic collage, adventure through themes of oneness and spirituality; portraying how we may more deeply experience and connect with the landscape.

IMAGES: Click here to launch the Image Gallery as a PDF version.

OPEN CALL FOR SOCIALLY-ENGAGED PHOTOGRAPHER.
Fixed fee: £10,000
Deadline: 10am Monday 7th July 2025

University of Salford Art Collection with RHS Garden Bridgewater, Open Eye Gallery, Salford Youth Service, and Salford Museum & Art Gallery

The University of Salford is working in partnership with RHS Garden Bridgewater (RHSGB), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Salford Youth Service to widen access to and engagement with nature through the medium of photography. We have secured Arts Council England (ACE) project grant funding to support a socially engaged photographer to work with Salford Youth Service and up to 4 groups of young people between September 2025 and October 2026.

Background:

University of Salford and Open Eye Gallery have a strong track record of collaborative working including includes developing a joint Masters programme in Socially Engaged Photography. We delivered a socially engaged artist in residence with the Collection in 2021/22 (Gwen Riley Jones; who developed work with Salford Youth Council) and worked again with Salford Youth Service on the Is Anybody Listening project in 2023. 

The University of Salford Art Collection has also established a partnership with RHS Gardens Bridgewater – which is hosting its first joint artist in residence programme with the photographer Yan Wang Preston.  With funding from Arts Council England we are working with 2 socially engaged photographers Anoosh Ariamehr and Fiona Robinson to develop projects with the health and wellbeing and community grow gardens at RHS Garden Bridgewater.

The opportunity:

We are now looking for a socially engaged photographer (or socially engaged artist focussing on photography) to work with young people from Salford Youth Service and to engage with them with nature through the RHSGB and the broader residency programme.

The selected candidate will work with SYS who have identified the following 4 groups:

• NEET (Not in education, employment or training – across Salford)
• Salford Youth Council (across Salford)
• Little Hulton and Walkden Youth Group
• Eccles and Winton Youth Group

SYS will support the selected photographer with a dedicated youth work worker and assistant supporting all activity. 10 digital cameras will be available for use.

Objectives:

• Introducing or improving photography-based skills for local young people
• Supporting young people to visit and connect with new places (RHS, Salford Museum, campus)
• Encouraging young people to think about issues around nature, environment, sustainability and wellbeing
• Creating space and time for young people to express what’s important to them
• Sharing young people’s voices with a public audience (format TBC – may be e.g. digital blogs, publication, visual outcome, presence in planned events/exhibitions programmes).

What we are looking for / what to expect:

A socially engaged photographer with demonstrable interest in nature and the environment and experience of working with young people.  Our young people are mainly from low socio economic backgrounds and have diverse needs including low confidence and neurodiversity.

 We anticipate:

• Approximately 40 days delivery, based on site (across Salford) with SYS and 4 groups of young people. Based on 10 sessions per group – including a minimum of 2 visits to RHSGB, and 1 visit to Salford Museum and Art Gallery (Oct 26)
• 2 groups taking place from mid Sept 25, and 2 groups from April 26
• Approximately 10 days planning and preparation, and contributing to  evaluation and communications and events (symposium Oct 26)

There is also potential to:

• present work or documentation publicly at RHSGB (summer 26), Salford Museum and Art Gallery (Oct 26), UOSAC or OEG, or online at the end of the project.
• engage with students of MA Socially Engaged Practice at UoS
• engage with the UOSAC

The successful candidate will be required to pass a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check (enhanced with children’s barred list) in order to be able to take up the role, or be registered with the DBS Update Service in order for an employer check to be carried out.

You will also be committed to working in or developing environmentally sustainable practices.  

We recognise that the project will develop and change over the year and our staff teams will support you in embracing opportunities as the project evolves.

Fees and expenses:

Fee: Fixed artist fee of £10,000 to include all expenses and any VAT if payable.  
Payable in quarterly instalments.

This is based on a programme of activity from Sept 25 – Oct 26 –  approx. 40 days across the 4 groups, plus 10 days for planning, preparation,  and contribution to communications, evaluation and events (symposium).  We anticipate that the work will happen mainly in autumn and spring when the weather is better for outdoor activity and when the gardens will be at their most interesting.

Costs: there is an additional budget available of up to £3400 to cover all additional costs such as transport, refreshments and materials for working with SYS.

There is potentially up to a further £2000 available for legacy.  This could cover time/material costs such as: printing/framing and presentation at a public venue (eg at Youth Centre or Salford Museum and Art Gallery), making books or objects to take home at end of project, digital skills to present work online.

You will also receive organisational support from the University of Salford Art Collection team and partners as well as marketing reach for the project.

Reporting:

Line Manager and first point of contact: Stephanie Fletcher, Curator, UOS
Lead contact at SYS: Rob Fulton
Lead contact at OEG: Sarah Fisher
Lead contact at RHSGB: Daniel Atherton

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APPLICATION PROCESS:

To apply:

1. Please send us your CV along with a letter explaining your interest in this position and how you might approach the role (1-2 pages maximum).
2. Please include a selection of images of your work or include links to work online.
3. Please send your application in standard file formats (e.g Word, PDF and JPEG). Please do not send very large files or Wetransfer/Dropbox/etc links as these may not reach our inbox. 

Send your application to artcollection@salford.ac.uk
With the subject line “SEP SYS Residency 2025”
Application Deadline: 10am Monday 7^th July
Interviews: Tuesday 22^nd July

Accessibility: 

If you have access needs and wish to discuss these in relation to the application and interview stage, or the opportunity more broadly, please contact: artcollection@salford.ac.uk

We are committed to equal opportunities and will work with the successful selected applicants to support access requirements through reasonable adjustments during the programme. Where disclosures are made and access needs are identified, this will be discussed in more detail with selected candidates after interview stage.

We actively encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply. We fully recognise the value of a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities.

FURTHER INFORMATION: (click to drop-down)

About University of Salford Art Collection

The University of Salford Art Collection is a modest but ambitious collection of modern and contemporary art, founded in 1968 and actively collecting new work through commissions & co-commissions. The collection team work with artists at a range of career levels and collect diverse work across four three thematic strands: About the Digital, From the North, Chinese Contemporary Art. We also programme widely across issues of nature, sustainability, and environment. The Collection supports students, graduates, emerging and established artists through artist development programmes, residencies and collaborations; and reaches audiences through events, exhibitions and more. Read more across the website: artcollection.salford.ac.uk

About Salford Youth Service

The youth service is an informal education service, working with young people aged 11 to 25 years, to ensure every young person in Salford reaches their full potential.

The youth workers support young people’s personal and social development as they move on from childhood to become responsible young adults.

The aims of the youth service are:

• To ensure young people to have a say in decisions affecting them and a voice in their community
• To improve their health and wellbeing
• To support their people’s education, learning and routes to employment and to keep them safe and reduce risk taking behaviour

Each young person is an individual, with different needs and aspirations, so we provide informal activities and youth work programmes, in youth centres, detached work, specialist projects, one to one work and groups, in schools or with other partners.

Our youth workers work alongside young people, building positive relationships based on trust and respect. This enables them to deliver programmes of work that are flexible, and responsive to the needs of young people.

The youth service is based on a commitment to equality and young people’s active participation and empowerment.

About RHS

Since our formation in 1804, the RHS has grown into the UK’s leading gardening charity, touching the lives of millions of people. Perhaps the secret to our longevity is that we’ve never stood still. In the last decade alone we’ve taken on the largest hands-on project the RHS has ever tackled by opening the new RHS Garden Bridgewater in Salford, Greater Manchester, and invested in the science that underpins all our work by building RHS Hilltop – The Home of Gardening Science.

We have committed to being net positive for nature and people by 2030. We are also committed to being truly inclusive and to reflect all the communities of the UK.

Across our five RHS gardens we welcome more than three million visitors each year to enjoy over 34,000 different cultivated plants. Events such as the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show, other national shows, our schools and community work, and partnerships such as Britain in Bloom, all spread the shared joy of gardening to wide-reaching audiences.

Throughout it all we’ve held true to our charitable core – to encourage and improve the science, art, and practice of horticulture – to share the love of gardening and the positive benefits it brings.

For more information visit www.rhs.org.uk

About Open Eye Gallery

Open Eye Gallery is developing a national lead on Socially Engaged Photography Practice, (SEPP) including coordinating a national network of SEPP practitioners and photography organisations, supporting international practice development, as well as managing a significant programme of SEPP residencies with a wide range of partners, which currently includes 16 residencies, based in a range of contexts from neighbourhood initiatives, to NHS programmes and Novus, a national education provider in prisons, to one with Energy House, based in the University of Salford. More broadly we develop exhibitions, learning programmes, publications and events in our gallery, and in partner venues locally and internationally, we have a growing digital programme as well as running LOOK Photo Biennial.

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Image credits:
1) Former artist in residence Gwen Riley Jones with youth group Action for Conservation
2) RHS Garden Bridgewater © RHS / Lee Charlton
3) Salford Youth Service workshop, photo courtesy Gwen Riley Jones

In May 2025 our Artist in Residence at the University of Salford Acoustic Labs, Hayley Suviste, presented a 3-part installation as part of Sounds From The Other City. Artist Lizzie King shares her experience of From The River’s Mouth below.

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A growing amount of rivers have been granted the legal status of personhood, a legal right to flow, a way for rivers to be protected and a way for them to be honoured.  In her installation “From the River’s Mouth’ Hayley Suviste gives the audience a unique way to connect with the River Irwell meeting it at its Salford stretch.  The Irwell is a life source that runs 63 km. Many sound artists have previously explored rivers through their horizontal journey, however Suviste gives us the opportunity to experience the Irwell through a series of vertical interactions.  As the work progresses down the layers of the Irwell we encounter the perspectives of past, present, and future. 

‘From the River’s Mouth,’ makes use of three sonically distinct rooms to explore three different parts of the Irwell’s being and of its timeline. 

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The Listening Room

The next room we sit in is the listening room.  Filled with sofas, bean bags, and 124 speakers, we take a comfortable seat.  Projected onto a large screen in front are two videos side by side.  One shows us the most vivid blue colours running in the water and the other the pungent orange of the sediment from the bank.  We are introduced to a series of fixed frame videos showing different scenes from the river bank. The sound of the river is different this time we are alongside it, hearing noises all around us as if we were sat by the Irwell itself. We see and hear the geese who inhabit this stretch alongside the vivid colours and textures which really are worth celebrating.  This time the Irwell bables and tinkles it has a gentler quality now that we are aside it rather than inside it, a loop of synthesised melodies accompany the waters flow.  Two different angles of a red balloon caught on branches.   The sound of Reggie being called in the distance, a runaway dog.  It is an experience that we are more familiar with but one that our attention may not often focus on.  A woman singing a folk song drifts in from the left, again we are lulled as tonal loops intermingle with the river’s tinkling.  Until the film comes to an end I like other audience members are reluctant to get up from our seats.

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Hayley Suviste has been resident at the University of Salford Acoustic laboratory carrying out a commission to look at the environment.  Suviste a composer and sound artist has placed the audience in a series of situations which leave you questioning your own relationship to the river.  Many of these left the audience in a sense of calm or entrancement, do we spend this same time at the River Irwell?  As this series looks at a sense of passing of time in the rivers life it also questions what the river’s life should look like and what part do our lives play in that? 

This performance took place multiple times on 4th May, 2025 as part of Sounds of the City Festival.  In the midst of a pulsating, hectic, jubilant atmosphere there was this pocket of quiet, of calm, and of contemplation.  In the midst of a party Suviste opened up a type of gulf in which we were able to connect with who we are and who the River Irwell is.

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Another artist friend of ours Fiona Sinéad Brehony has written about their own experience of Suviste’s From The River’s Mouth – which you can also read below:

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In Spring 2025 we launched an ambitious exhibition of new work by artists Mishka Henner and Emily Speed, in partnership with the Castlefield Gallery, Open Eye Gallery and Energy House Labs. The exhibition is the culmination of 18-month Artist Residencies with Energy House 2.0 at the University of Salford, a period in which the artists have immersed themselves in this world-leading energy performance facility, its cutting-edge research, and the facilities and research of the wider university.

A unique facility, Energy House delivers pioneering research on how carbon neutral and net zero homes, the homes of the future, will be built. Energy House 2.0’s chamber can accommodate two full-sized detached houses and simulate climatic conditions including wind, rain, snow, solar radiation and extreme temperatures. Research at Energy House cuts across science and technology, architecture, design and our rapidly changing climate; the artists’ residencies have taken Henner and Speed on different yet intersecting journeys. 

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The Energy House 2.0 Artist Residencies are hosted in partnership with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

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OFFSHOOT Artist in Residence programme is a collaboration between University of Salford Art Collection, RHS Garden Bridgewater and Open Eye Gallery Liverpool and is generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

About the Programme:

Run by University of Salford Art Collection with Castlefield Gallery, and in collaboration with our professional partners, the Graduate Scholarship Programme was established in 2014 to support artists in the crucial first year and the initial period after graduation. The programme runs for up to 18 months and grants graduates time, resources and the opportunity to develop their practice and shape their future careers within a supportive framework.

We want to encourage artists to remain in Salford and to develop their professional practice within the artist community in the city: the programme is a unique opportunity to further develop professional skills and gain vital industry experience and relationships with benefits lasting beyond the programme.

About the Scholarship:

Scholarship packages are tailored, but can include:

• Professional development and advice including coaching, career, practice and professional development sessions, 1-2-1 advisory sessions, studio group crit days, and mentoring
• £1000 bursary towards time and expenses to engage with the programme, which may include e.g. materials and travel
• Studio space and studio support for 12 months, based at studios including Paradise Works, Hot Bed Press, Islington Mill and Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces
• Research trips regionally and nationally, sometimes including overnight stays and networking
• Free 12-month Castlefield Gallery Associates membership See Castlefield website for benefits: Castlefield Gallery Associates – Castlefield Gallery
• Opportunity to have artwork acquired (via gift) into the University’s permanent Art Collection as a legacy of the programme

In 2024/25, we awarded five places on the scheme, with studio spaces including Islington Mill, Paradise Works and Hot Bed Press. The programme evolves each year as we endeavour to offer opportunities to the graduates we think we can best support. Over 50 graduates have benefitted from the scheme so far.

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Click each header below to read more information:

>Eligibility

Eligibility:

The programme is open to University of Salford final year undergraduates from the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology (who are due to graduate or complete their studies in July 2025) – plus there will be a maximum of one scholarship open to an MA graduate (due to graduate or complete in September 2025). Applicants who will be undertaking further study at the time of the scholarship (e.g. starting an MA in 2025) will not be eligible. Previous scholars will not be eligible.

The programme takes place in Salford and Greater Manchester (as well as UK research trips and some online sessions) and applicants must be able to attend. Further information and guidelines are available below.

>Accessibility

Accessibility:

We aim to remove barriers, bias or discrimination that prevents individuals or groups from realising their potential, and to develop organisational cultures that positively value diversity. If you have access needs and wish to discuss these in relation to the application and interview stage, or the opportunity more broadly, please contact: artcollection@salford.ac.uk 

We are committed to equal opportunities and will work with the successful selected applicants to support access requirements through reasonable adjustments during the programme. Where disclosures are made and access needs are identified, this will be discussed in more detail with selected candidates after interview stage. 

>Care and Consideration

Care and Consideration:

Please note, we approach the delivery of the programme with the aim of enacting care and consideration for all involved. To this end we operate a zero tolerance policy towards hostile, disrespectful or abusive behaviour towards staff, volunteers, partners and others, in all communications. 

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How to apply:

Open for applications: from Monday 24th March 2025
Application deadline: by 9am Monday 28th April 2025
Shortlisted applicants: will be interviewed in person on Monday 12th May 2025
Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

1) Please read the guidance on this page, and in the guidance form (below)
2) Download and complete your application form (below)
3) Prepare an up to date CV (maximum 2 pages)
4) Prepare up to four examples of your work (image, video or audio) as an attachment or weblink
5) Email your form, cv, and examples to: S.A.Parker@salford.ac.uk with the subject line “GSP Application”

Click here to download the Application Form in Word Format or PDF Format
Click here to download the Application Guidance in Word Format or PDF Format

All information and guidance, including accepted formats and eligibility, is on this page and in the guidance form download. For any further enquiries, please email: artcollection@salford.ac.uk

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Find out more:

In 2024 we awarded five places on the scheme, with studio spaces including Islington Mill, Paradise Works Hot Bed Press, and Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces. The programme evolves each year as we endeavour to offer opportunities to the graduates we think we can best support. Over 50 graduates have benefitted from the scheme so far. In 2024 we celebrated 10 years of the scheme with our exhibition and programme CATALYST.

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