The first of two blog posts with artist Jack Tan, discussing his new commission 'Tale As Old As Time'. Jack talks with us about the tradition of ‘disaster ceramics’ , and key moments in Chinese civil rights history in the UK.
For the final in our series of new commissions this Summer, the University of Salford Art Collection has teamed up with AND Festival and Somerset House Studios to commission a new digital work by Marija Bozinovska Jones.
Artist: Pat FlynnTitles: Cheese, Cheese Selection, Cheese HoleYear: 2015Medium: C-type prints on di-bond 52.5cm x 70cm Edition of 5 +1AP. Courtesy the artist and The International 3Brief biography: b.1972, UK. Lives & works in Greater Manchester.Acquired: 2015, from the International 3 Gallery Pat Flynn is an artist based in Greater Manchester. His realistic, digitally-rendered work focuses on “how we understand ourselves […]
The third in a series of micro-commissions, inviting artists to respond to our Collection. Digital artist Pat Flynn has re-interpreted a body of his own work from 2015.
The second of our Spring Salford micro-commissions. Photographer Jesse Glazzard revisits a series of work that explores LGBTQ+ identity, class, politics, and creative practice.
Year: 2018-19Medium: Film photographyDimensions: variableBrief biography: b. 1993, Halifax. Currently lives & works in London Jesse Glazzard is an artist from West Yorkshire. His work deals with class, sexuality and gender politics; in an intimate reflection of the “LGBT+ community and way beyond that”. In 2017, he founded Moist Collective, a space for queer womxn and non-binary artists to […]
Sharing the first of our Spring micro-commissions, from Paradise Works member Katie Tomlinson. July 2020
Announcing the first in a series of new co-commissions for the Collection, during covid-19. North West based artists Kiara Mohamed and Sarah Eyre are commissioned in partnership with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
The latest in a series of poems, shared weekly by Chancellor Jackie Kay during COVID-19.
New poetry in response to the COVID 19 crisis, May 2020. This week, Jackie shares her poem 'Jemini Peaches'.