HOME, Manchester.
University of Salford is a founding partner of HOME. The Art Collection team co-commissioned The Most Cruel of all Goddesses by Declan Clarke as part of the inaugural exhibition in 2015, including a special screening and artist talk. In 2016, we co-commission It’s What’s Inside That Counts (2016) by Rachel Maclean. We support the co-commission of The Scar, a fiction film installation by Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, in 2018.
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool.
This includes a co-commission with Ryoichi Kurokawa in 2016.
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester. This partnership is multi-faceted and includes numerous commissions and acquisitions, shared events programme, student live briefs, shared research trips, co-curated exhibitions such as Harmonious Society (Asia Triennial Manchester 2014/ATM14), and the evolving Asia Research Network for Arts and Media (ARNAM) partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester University.
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
The Art Collection run the Graduate Scholarship Programme and co-commissioned the exhibition by Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce with Castlefield Gallery.
In 2019, we co-commissioned Everything I Have Is Yours by Eileen Simpson and Ben White.
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, Manchester.
Co-commissioned Liam Young’s Where the City Can’t See with AND and St. Helen’s Heart of Glass.
We are programme partners for AND Festival 2020.