2025 Graduate Scholarship Programme: Open for Applications
The Graduate Scholarship Programme is now open to applications to 2025 Graduates from the School of Art, Media and Creative Technology! Find out how to apply here!
Castlefield Gallery
2024/25 Graduate Scholar studio visits
The University of Salford Art Collection, Paradise Works, Islington MIll, Hot Bed Press, and our associates at Castlefield Gallery got together with our current Graduate Scholars to have a look at what they have been up to in their new studios. Read more here
Energy House 2.0’s Artist in Residence Special – Mishka Henner & Emily Speed
Want to know more about our Artists in Residence at Energy House 2.0? In this special edition of Talking Salford Podcast, both Mishka Henner and Emily Speed talk about their practices, projects, careers, and the work they are doing in collaboration with Energy House 2.0!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Meg Woods
‘Condescending Order’ is a series of zines produced on a monthly basis in 2015, reflecting current political themes. Usually produced in an A5 booklet format, each zine has a variety of formats including poetry, collage and illustration. This series of Zines by Meg Woods is currently on display as a part of CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Joshua Turner
Turner is a photographic artist exploring narratives of symbiosis between the landscape and the individual. ‘A Seat in the Shade’ is part of a larger body of work produced during the Venice Biennale 2019, where the artist undertook a stewarding fellowship co-ordinated by the British Council. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Adam Rawlinson
Rawlinson is an abstract painter primarily working in oils. His work explores the natural world, with a particular focus on lichen – a symbiotic natural organism. His new work 'The birds will sing, that you are part of everything' is now on show as a part of Catalyst: Celebrating 10 years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Lizzie King
Lizzie King uses analogue and digital printmaking and photography to explore the ‘narratives of our human-centred universe’. This work was one of two pieces commissioned for Rediscovering Salford in 2020, a city-wide project inviting artists to respond to green spaces in the city. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Jack Jameson
Jack Jameson’s work presents a model utopia, inspired by mythology and folklore. In this world nature prevails, and the ‘forest nymph, water siren and rock troll dwell in in harmony – free to be’. The work combines craft, costume, 3D scanning, printing and rendering, photography, and animation - now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Jesse Glazzard
Glazzard is a photographer and creative director working across personal, commercial and editorial fields. Their series LGBT+ Letters serves to counter the ‘complete lack of queer visibility’ the artist was met with upon coming- out while at secondary school; and aims to challenge the ‘stale stereotypes’ that still hamper the LGBTQIA+ community. - now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!
CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Joe Fowler
‘Call to Industry’ is a ‘tongue-in-cheek exploration of Manchester’s fetishisation of industrial spaces and history, via a parody cult initiation video for an organisation which worships industry’ - now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!