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University of Salford Art Collection: Catalogue

Welcome to the University of Salford Art collection online catalogue (beta version). Our collection of modern and contemporary art exists for anyone – staff, student, or public, to enjoy.

You can browse the collection by medium, collecting strand or artist name using the tabs above, or search the whole catalogue by keyword. Alternatively, enjoy a randomly generated selection of the whole catalogue below – hit refresh for a new selection.

The full collection includes over 900 items which we are uploading on an ongoing basis. Currently (Jan 2023) around 30% of the Collection is represented online – please get in touch if you’d like to know more about an artist or artwork not yet uploaded.

Find out more about the collection here. To learn more about our wider programme – including new commissions, upcoming exhibitions, events, opportunities, and more, please visit our main site – or find us on socials/email below. We welcome your feedback and enquiries!

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an image of a young person, with long way auburn hair. She looks towards the camera.
Craig Easton, Maizi, 16, Runcorn, Cheshire, 2018
male, portrait, head
Harold Riley, Head of Man, 1970
A colourful still image from 'Nodes' showing a distorted background with purples, greens, browns, and black and whites. Code, describing sounds sits ontop of the background in white text on pink.
Antonio Roberts, Nodes, 2020
portrait
Alfonzo Padilla, Estudio Raka Reius I, 1968
figures, boy and brother
Harold Riley, Boy and Brother in Salford Street, 1977
Owen Leong, Hole, 2006
This is a photo of a letter with a few lines written.
Yan Xing, Letter to Mr Robert Peckham, 2012
architecture, inside priory, windows
Valerie Thornton, Benham Priory, 1978
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Albert Adams, Self Portrait, 1958
black print of one man band with dogs, with text underneath: Jack Hall had a dancing dog band, his dogs were called Jip, Joey, Jim, Jason, Jock, Jeff and Jacob. He played in the pubs, clubs and on the streets
Harold Riley, Mr Hall's Dancing Dog Band, 1980
a preparatory sketch showing a two intertwined figures walking on a tightrope
Albert Adams, Ape on a Man on a Tightrope, 2001
Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled Series, 2015
photograph, documentation, Engel's Beard
Dan Walmsley and Jai Redman, Jai Redman In the Studio (a), 2016
semi abstract, furniture
Paul Mason, Lounge II, 1979
This is a photograph of a man with his eyes closed and a cigarette in his mouth.
Wang Ningde, Some Days No.03, 2002
long abstract print, green white and black
Richard Brooks, ...and the nuclear age..., 1981
a preparatory sketch showing a large ape riding on the shoulders of a naked make figure. The background is a brick wall
Albert Adams, Ape on a Standing Man, c.2000-2006
There are three black rectangles side by side on the screen.
Ma Qiusha, Triptych from The Fog Series, 2014
A textured etching shows a figure looking downwards towards the left hand corner of the image. He has dark hair, sideburns, a beard and mustache.
Albert Adams, Head (Final State), Date Not Known
abstract, with repeated drawn pattern
Richard Riley, Untitled, 1980

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