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University of Salford Art Collection

2025 Annual Survey

Do you want to help inform our events, exhibitions, and give us ideas for new additions to our programme? Then give us your feedback with the new 2025 Annual Survey!

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

Celebrating Albert Adams – Discovering the Special Collection p.3

Hello Curatorial Intern Cami O’Hagan here, this will be my final takeover for spotlighting these artworks. It has been a privilege in showing you my journey in discovering the work of Albert Adams through auditing the University’s Special Collection! Read more about the Special Collection here!

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!