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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 photographing and uploading on an ongoing basis. As of Summer 2023 around 30% of the Collection is represented online.

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. For any further enquiries, email: artcollection@salford.ac.uk

A colourful screenprint with a red, blue and yellow patern on a black background, in a white frame.
Cecile Elstein, The Sisyphus Suite, 1979-80
This is an abstract work made of interlaced lines of different colors.
Chou Yu-Cheng, from Geoff Molyneux Series, 2014
abstract shapes on gold brown background
Cecile Elstein, Small Offering, 1980
small landscape, mill
Harold Riley, View of the Acme Spinning Mill, from Barton Moss, 1976
Owen Leong, Hole, 2006
The picture depicts a girl wearing a robot costume of many colors.
Lu Yang, The Great Adventure of Material World #1, 2019
An intentionally glitched abstract image with multicolour vertical stripes
Thomson & Craighead, Corruption I & II, 2014
a film still showing a sunset over an outdoor theatre
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Song for Armageddon, 2017
rugby players painting
Walter Kershaw, Scrum Half and Prop Forward, 1970
a sculpture representing a nurturing pose.
Karen Lyons, Iron, 2007
a black and white drawing depicting an ape riding on the back of a human figure
Albert Adams, Ape on a Standing Man, 2001
A black and white image showing a lit oil lamp on a table.
Albert Adams, Lamp (Incarceration), 2002
two gloved hands hold open a book, the pages of which are full of numerical code
Liam Young, Where the City Can't See (Book), 2017
A charcoal drawing depicts an abstracted locust, using thick, energetic lines, dots, and smudges.
Albert Adams, Locust 2, 2001
Greengrocer's Shop, monochrome
Harold Riley, Greengrocer's Shop, 1970
portrait
Alfonzo Padilla, Estudio Raka Reius I, 1968
a still from a video, showing a close-up of a person lying on a bed. They are covering their left ear with their left hand
Shen Xin, Warm Spell, 2018
Ryoichi Kurokawa, unfold.alt, 2016
A pencil drawing depicting a shopping trolley, with large, dark, bulky contents. The trolley stands out from the plae background, a square shadow beneath it.
Albert Adams, Laden Trolley, 2002
There are many books made of ceramics on the table in the picture.
Annie Lai-kuen Wan, Lost in Biliterate and Trilingual, 2014
Abstract painting with bright vertical stripes of, teal, yellow, purple, and red, intersected by angled stripes of blue, teal, and purple.
Alan Dickinson, Drawing, 1971.

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