Previous projects
As well as our campus gallery programme at the New Adelphi Gallery, the Art Collection Team co-ordinates a range of on-and-off campus events, exhibitions, tours, loans, partnership projects and more.
Projects
2024
- EXHIBITION: Catalyst at the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Steph Huang at esea contemporary
- EXHIBITION: Where should we be now? at Castlefield Gallery
- TOURING PROJECT – Hybrid Futures
- EXHIBITION – Art Film Season 2024 at New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: LOOK Climate Lab 2024 at Open Eye Gallery
- EVENT: The Conductor by Mishka Henner, at Sounds from the Other City Festival
- PROJECT: Catalyst – 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme
- RESIDENCIES – Energy House 2.0 Artist Residency Programme; Emily Speed & Mishka Henner
2023
- TOUR – Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? and Our Time, Our Place
- TOUR – Hybrid Futures
- EXHIBITION – Some Days I Feel Triangle
- PROJECT – Energy House 2.0 Artist Residency Programme; Emily Speed & Mishka Henner
- EXHIBITION – Visibilities: Shaping a story of now
- EXHIBITION – Cecile Elstein: The Sisyphus Suite
- PROJECT – Sustaining Photography – Lizzie King & Gwen Riley Jones
- EVENT – The Manchester Contemporary – Salford Scholars
Exhibitions
2022
- Mimesis: A beat before the rapture, Part of LOOK Photo Biennial, New Adelphi Atrium (19 Oct – 16 Nov)
- Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022, Online Exhibition (Sep 2022)
- Are You Living Comfortably? Part of LOOK Photo Biennial, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery (10 Oct – 23 Dec 2022)
- Planting for the Planet, RHS Bridgewater (28 May – 27 Aug 2022)
- Lowri Evans: Leaves / Leaving, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (2 Apr – 27 Nov 2022)
- Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (15 Jul 2022 – 26 Feb 2023)
- Theirs, Yours, Ours, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery (30 Mar – 23 Dec 2022)
- Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings, Grundy Art Gallery (26 Mar – 11 Jun 2022)
2021
- You Belong Here, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (15 Jul 2021 – 19 Jun 2022)
2020
- In Focus: Portraiture, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery (24 Feb 2020 – Feb 2022)
- Thumbs Up, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (24 Jan – 8 March 2020)
2019
- Homage to the Rain
Lightwaves, MediaCityUK
(6 – 15 Dec 2019) - Peer to Peer
Shanghai Center of Photography
(8 Dec 2019 – 9 Feb) - Cheng Ran: Diary of a Madman – Manchester Plan, New Bees
CFCCA
(24 Oct 2019 – 12 Jan 2020) - Peer to Peer
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
(17 Oct – 22 Dec 2019) - Taking the Leap
PHOTOFAIR Shanghai
(20 – 22 Sep 2019) - He was a wild one
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
(16 Sep 2019 – 17 Jan 2020) - Everything I Have Is Yours
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive)
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(4 Jul – 3 Nov 2019) - Shifting Perspectives
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
(22 May – 2 Aug 2019) - Haworth Life Drawing Series 2019
The Old Fire Station, University of Salford
(8 May 2019 – 20 Jan 2020) - SIXTEEN
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
(15 Feb – 10 May 2019) - Chinternet Ugly
CFCCA
(7 Feb – 12 May 2019) - Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce
Glasgow Women’s Library
(31 Jan – 23 Mar 2019)
2018
- Acquired: a century of collecting
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(3 Nov 2018 – 9 Jun 2019) - Highlights from Push and Pull
The Old Fire Station, University of Salford
(21 Nov 2018 – Mar 2019) - In focus: Chinese Contemporary Art
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
(12 Nov 2018 – 1 Feb 2019) - The Manchester Contemporary 2018: ALUMNI
Manchester Central
(12 – 14 Oct 2018) - Island Life
Paradise Works, Salford
(6 – 16 Sep 2018) - This is Shanghai
Cunard Building, Liverpool
(14 July – 7 Sep 2018)
2017
- Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson: Song for Armageddon
BALTIC, Gateshead
(21 – 24 Sep 2017)
Events
2022
- LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate x University of Salford Events (Nov 2022)
- Rachel Goodyear in conversation with Dr. Catriona McAra, University of Salford (27 Oct 2022)
- Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022, Online Symposium (Sep – Oct 2022)
- Exhibition Launch: Stirrings, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (14 July 2022)
- Salford Rediscovered, The Cresent, Peel Park Campus, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (16 Jun 2022)
- The Storm Cone Tours with Laura Daly, Peel Park (2 Apr 2022)
- Go Green Salford Events: You Belong Here Tree Trail & Instagram Live (March 2022)
- Albert Adams: In Context, Online Symposium (9 Mar 2022)
- Rediscovering Urban Green Spaces, Online Discussion (23 Feb 2022)
- Are You Living Comfortably?: Creating a Culture of Energy Efficiency in Our Homes, Online Discussion (28 Jan 2022)
2021
- You Belong Here Artist Talks, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (Sep – Oct 2021)
2020
- Automated Dreaming: Using AI in a creative practice Artist talk by Anna Ridler
University of Salford
(5 Mar 2020) - Thumbs Up events at Castlefield Gallery
(1- 22 Feb 2020) - Gordon Cheung in conversation with Mark Rappolt
(19 Feb 2020)
2019
- Lightwaves 2019 Artists’ Talks
The Lowry, Salford
(6 Dec 2019) - Collaborative Endeavours
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(29 Oct 2019) - In Conversation: Paul Morley with Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(2 Oct 2019) - Together We Move Performance
Manchester International Festival, Albert Square, Manchester
(10 July 2019) - Together We Move
Exhibition and events programme
(4 Jul – 3 Nov 2019) - Preview: Everything I Have Is Yours
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(3 Jul 2019) - SIXTEEN: talk and panel discussion
Salford University - (15 Feb 2019)
- FREEPORT: Terminal MCR
MediaCityUK
(12 – 16 Feb 2019)
2018
- PRINT UnLtd.: Panel Discussion
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(10 Oct 2018) - PRINT UnLtd.: A New Spirit in Printmaking
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
(5 Sep 2018) - This is Shanghai – In Conversation with Jiang Jiehong, Curator
Cunard Building, Liverpool
(21 Aug 2018)
Other
2021
- Leaving, a Study of Autumn, participatory project by Lowri Evans. Eccles Recreation Ground, Ordsall Hall, University of Salford (Nov 2021)
- Seo Hye Lee – Online Residency, Vital Capacities (Jun 2021)
2019
- (4 Jul – 3 Nov 2019)
2018
- PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2018
(21 – 23 Sep 2018) - LOAN: Art Collection artworks in Royal Academy Takeover
(30 Jun 2018 – 24 Feb 2019)