Mandy Cleveland – Back of the Envelope
A new Q&A with Manchester-based artist Mandy Cleveland, one of six artists commissioned this Summer. Mandy discusses new work that reflects on feelings of 'personal and global' uncertainty during Covid 19.
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Birds or Borders – new animated video + Q&A with artist Parham Ghalamdar
Now available to watch online in full, Birds or Borders is a new animated video by Parham Ghalamdar. Alongside, read a new Q&A with the artist and UOS Curator Lindsay Taylor.
Spring micro-commission #5: Mollie Balshaw
The final in our current series of micro-commissions. Painter Mollie Balshaw records themself painting in the studio - revealing the usually private 'performance' behind the work.
Artist Q&A: Jack Tan, Tale As Old As Time
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.
Announcing: New commission with Marija Bozinovska Jones, AND Festival & Somerset House Studios
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.
Pat Flynn
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 […]
Spring micro-commission #3: Pat Flynn
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.
Spring micro-commission #2: Jesse Glazzard
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.
Jesse Glazzard: LGBT+ Letters
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 […]
Spring micro-commission #1: Katie Tomlinson
Sharing the first of our Spring micro-commissions, from Paradise Works member Katie Tomlinson. July 2020