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.
Selected Projects, Exhibitions and Events
2026
- EXHIBITION: City of Making, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- CURATOR TOUR: City of Making Exhibition / Salford 100 Centenary Event, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- WORKSHOP: Sustainable Collage Workshop by Studio Within, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- PANEL DISCUSSION: Planting for the Future: A Word With The Experts, Open Eye Gallery
- PANEL DISCUSSION: Sowing Kinship: People, Plants, Photos, Open Eye Gallery
- EXHIBITION: LOOK Photo Biennial: Is This A Garden? and The Perfect Flower, Open Eye Gallery
- EXHIBITION: LOOK Climate Lab, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool
- EXHIBITION: OFFSHOOT: Artists in Residence, RHS Garden Bridgewater
- SYMPOSIUM: Self-Defined: Symposium, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool / Online
- SYMPOSIUM: Peer to Peer: UK/Ukraine Symposium, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool / Online
- FESTIVAL COMMISSION: From the Other and Our Ears Sometimes Sing to Us at Sounds from the Other City Festival, New Adelphi / Acoustics Laboratories, University of Salford
- RESIDENCY: Omid Asadi at Energy House 2.0, University of Salford
2025
- EXHIBITION: Mediated Realities, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Between the Earth and the Sky, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- RESIDENCIES: Energy House 2.0 Artist residencies, and exhibition at Castlefield Gallery
2024
- EXHIBITION: Catalyst, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Steph Huang, esea contemporary
- EXHIBITION: Where should we be now?, Castlefield Gallery
- TOURING PROJECT – Hybrid Futures, North West UK tour
- EXHIBITION – Art Film Season 2024, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: LOOK Climate Lab 2024, Open Eye Gallery
- EVENT: The Conductor by Mishka Henner, 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 North West UK tour
- TOUR – Hybrid Futures North West UK tour
- EXHIBITION – Some Days I Feel Triangle, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- PROJECT – Energy House 2.0 Artist Residency Programme; Emily Speed & Mishka Henner
- EXHIBITION – Visibilities: Shaping a story of now New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION – Cecile Elstein: The Sisyphus Suite Clifford Whitworth Library
- PROJECT – Sustaining Photography – Lizzie King & Gwen Riley Jones
- EVENT – The Manchester Contemporary – Salford Scholars
2022
- EXHIBITION: Mimesis: A beat before the rapture, Part of LOOK Photo Biennial, New Adelphi Atrium
- ONLINE EXHIBITION: Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022
- EXHIBITION: Are You Living Comfortably? Part of LOOK Photo Biennial, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Planting for the Planet, Part of LOOK Photo Biennial, RHS Bridgewater
- EXHIBITION: Lowri Evans: Leaves / Leaving, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Theirs, Yours, Ours, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings, Grundy Art Gallery
- PROJECT: LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate x University of Salford Events, University of Salford & Open Eye Gallery
- ARTIST TALK: Rachel Goodyear in conversation with Dr. Catriona McAra, University of Salford
- ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022
- EXHIBITION: Stirrings, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Salford Rediscovered, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- ARTIST TOUR: The Storm Cone Tours with Laura Daly, Peel Park
- EVENTS SERIES: Go Green Salford Events: You Belong Here Tree Trail & Instagram Live
- ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: Albert Adams: In Context
- PANEL DISCUSSION: Rediscovering Urban Green Spaces, Online
- PANEL DISCUSSION: Are You Living Comfortably?: Creating a Culture of Energy Efficiency in Our Homes
2021
- EXHIBITION: You Belong Here, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- ARTIST TALKS: You Belong Here Artist Talks, Salford Museum & Art Gallery
- PROJECT: Leaving, a Study of Autumn, participatory project by Lowri Evans. Eccles Recreation Ground, Ordsall Hall, University of Salford
- RESIDENCY: Seo Hye Lee – Online Residency, Vital Capacities
2020
- EXHIBITION: In Focus: Portraiture, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Thumbs Up, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
- ARTIST TALK: Automated Dreaming: Using AI in a creative practice Artist talk by Anna Ridler, University of Salford
- EVENTS: Thumbs Up events at Castlefield Gallery
- ARTIST TALK: Gordon Cheung in conversation with Mark Rappolt
2019
- OUTDOOR EXHIBITION: Homage to the Rain, Lightwaves, MediaCityUK
- EXHIBITION: Peer to Peer, Shanghai Center of Photography
- EXHIBITION: Cheng Ran: Diary of a Madman – Manchester Plan, New Bees, CFCCA
- EXHIBITION: Peer to Peer, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
- EXHIBITION: Taking the Leap, PHOTOFAIR Shanghai
- EXHIBITION: He was a wild one, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
- EXHIBITION: Everything I Have Is Yours, Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive), Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Shifting Perspectives, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
- EXHIBITION: Haworth Life Drawing Series 2019, The Old Fire Station, University of Salford
- EXHIBITION: SIXTEEN, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford
- EXHIBITION: Chinternet Ugly, CFCCA
- EXHIBITION: Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Glasgow Women’s Library
- ARTIST TALK: Lightwaves 2019 Artists’ Talks, The Lowry
- SYMPOSIUM: Collaborative Endeavours, Salford Museum and Art Gallery.
- ARTIST TALK: In Conversation: Paul Morley with Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- PERFORMANCE: Together We Move Performance , Manchester International Festival, Albert Square
- EVENTS: Together We Move, Exhibition and events programme
- PREVIEW: Preview: Everything I Have Is Yours, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- PANEL DISCUSSION: SIXTEEN: talk and panel discussion, Salford University
- EXHIBITION: FREEPORT: Terminal MCR, MediaCityUK
2018
- EXHIBITION: Acquired: a century of collecting, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- EXHIBITION: Highlights from Push and Pull, The Old Fire Station, University of Salford
- EXHIBITION: In focus: Chinese Contemporary Art, New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery
- EXHIBITION: The Manchester Contemporary 2018: ALUMNI, Manchester Central
- EXHIBITION: Island Life, Paradise Works
- EXHIBITION: This is Shanghai, Cunard Building, Liverpool
- PANEL DISCUSSION: PRINT UnLtd.: Panel Discussion, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- ARTIST TALK: PRINT UnLtd.: A New Spirit in Printmaking, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- CURATOR TALK: This is Shanghai – In Conversation with Jiang Jiehong, Curator, Cunard Building, Liverpool
- PANEL DISCUSSION: PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2018
- LOAN: Art Collection artworks in Royal Academy Takeover
2017
- EXHIBITION: Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson: Song for Armageddon, BALTIC, Gateshead
2016
- FESTIVAL: Ryoichi Kurokawa’s unfold.alt at Manchester Science Festival 2016
- EXHIBITION: Exhibition launches: From Ocean to Horizon & Samson Young: One of Two Stories, or Both (Field Bagatelles), CFCCA