From the North

A landscape format black rectangle, with a very small image of planet earth in the centre.

SHARP, Dancing with Elvis, 1999-2021

SHARP, Dancing with Elvis, 2021

A hand drawn crow sits on barbed wire, against a light pink and blue sky

Parham Ghalamdar, Birds or Borders, 2020

Birds or Borders, Parham Ghalamdar, 2020

A white skeletal digital rendering of an ornate bandstand floats against a dark blue background.

Laura Daly, The Storm Cone, 2021

The Storm Cone, Laura Daly, 2021

A black and white photograph of a younger person. They have short dark hair and a short beard and moustache. They're looking straight towards the camera.

Craig Easton Awais, 16, Nelson, Lancashire 2018

Craig Easton, Awais, 16, Nelson, Lancashire 2018.

an image of a young person, with long way auburn hair. She looks towards the camera.

Craig Easton, Maizi, 16, Runcorn, Cheshire, 2018

A digital rendering of cheese wheels of various sizes, coated in red, yellow and black wax. They are presented against a pale blue background.

Pat Flynn, Cheese, Cheese Selection and Cheese Hole, 2015

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled Series, 2015

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled B, 2015

Adolphe Valette, Romiley, 1916

Sarah Hardacre, Forget Mermaids, 2012

Sarah Hardacre, Arms Open to Welcome the Sun, 2012

A photograph of an installation, made up of wooden poles and flag-shaped wooden panels

Darren Nixon, The Awkward Ambassador, 2016

An abstract screenprint showing distorted floor tiles. From a series of 100 unique relief prints, taken directly from the stone flag surface of the derelict 5th floor of Islington Mill.

Maurice Carlin, Temporary Custodians: 54, 2016

Maurice Carlin, Temporary Custodians: 45, 2016

Maurice Carlin, Temporary Custodians: 62, 2016

Maurice Carlin, Temporary Custodians: 53, 2016

Title, Artist, Year.

a photograph of a person, Ruth Barker, reading from a lectern as part of a performance of her work, If this is the last thing that I say

Ruth Barker, If this is the last thing that I say (2018)

Ruth Barker, If this is the last thing that I say (2018).

a photograph of a person, wearing a blue hoody with paint on it. They are holding up an image of a tower block, which obscures their face.

Chris Paul Daniels and Sam Meech, One Square Mile, 2016

Chris Paul Daniels and Sam Meech One Square Mile, 2016

four crystalline cylinders against a white background. Two of them are black and true are beige

Hannah Leighton Boyce, Consequences of progress; remnants for the future (2018)

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Song for Armageddon, 2017

an abstract painting, with shapes resembling a shirt collar.

Louise Giovanelli, Collar IV, 2016

Artist: Louise Giovanelli (b.1993) Title: Collar IV Year: 2016 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: H:18cm W:14cm Accession Number: US2016-08 Acquisition info: The paintings Collar III and Collar IV were produced in 2016 for Louise Giovanelli’s solo show, Prima Donna which took place at The International 3 from June 25th – September 30th 2016 where they […]

an abstract painting showing shapes resembling a shirt collar

Louise Giavonelli, Collar III, 2016

Artist: Louise Giavonelli (b. 1993) Title: Collar III Year: 2016 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: H: 18cm W:14cm Accession Number: US2016-07 Acquisition info: The paintings were produced in 2016 for Louise Giovanelli’s solo show, Prima Donna which took place at The International 3 from June 25th – September 30th 2016 where they were presented as […]

abstract print in colour, showing swirling patterns in light brown, and patches of yellow, red and blue

Kip Gresham, Happy Cat, 1981

Artist: Kip Gresham (b. 1951) Title: Happy Cat Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint Dimensions: not known Accession Number: 273

Black and White abstract screenprint, showing three circular patterns and the silhouette of a hand

Kip Gresham, Speed and Magic, 1979

Artist: Kip Gresham (b. 1951) Title: Speed and Magic Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint Dimensions: H:85 W:62 Accession Number: 270

an image of a city in Italy in heavy rainfall, there are large umbrellas over tables and chairs, tarpaulins over street furniture, and a small crowd of people gathered in a shop entrance

Antony Barkworth-Knight, Homage to the Rain, 2019

Artist: Antony Barkworth-Knight, with musicians Rob Turner, Sam Healey, Conor Miller and digital strategist Rebecca Rae-Evans. Title: Homage to the Rain Year: 2019 Medium: digital video Dimensions: 12 mins duration Accession Number: TBC Acquisition info: Co-commission with Quays Culture for Lightwaves Festival 2019 Homage to the Rain is an artist’s film which celebrates rain around the […]

An impressionist painting with thick brushstrokes depicting an autumnal scene with brown bushes and green grass. The trunk of a tree with scant brown leaves stands to the right, two further trees standing in the distance on the left with two houses behind. A fence runs from the left corner to the centre of the painting. Two figures look out over the fence, one dressed in blue.

Adolphe Valette, Figures by a Fence, 1922

Artist: Adolphe Valette (b. 1876 – d. 1942) Title: Figures by a Fence Year: 1922 Medium: Oil on Board Accession Number: 68 Acquisition Info: Purchased Keywords: Oils, Landscape, Rural,