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.
Spring micro-commission #4: Richard Shields
The fourth in a series of micro-commissions for artists living, working, or from Salford. Artist & art technician Richard Shields has illustrated an imagined exhibition of works from our art collection...
Announcing: New commission with Mandy Cleveland and Hot Bed Press
The University of Salford is delighted to announce Mandy Cleveland as the fifth of six artists selected for new commissions for the Collection
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.
Now screening: Song for Armageddon by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson
Co-commissioned by the Collection in 2017, the film is now screening online - with new reflections on the topics of the work in light of Covid 19.
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 […]