Collection

Stephen Ashdown, Dirt, 2007

Title, Artist, Year.

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

Nodes, Antonio Roberts, 2020.

Adrian Henri, Souvenir of Normandy, 1981

Title, Artist, Year.

An abstract print depicts a blue diamond on a colourful red and yellow background

Kip Gresham, Lupin Diamond, 1981

Title, Artist, Year.

An abstract print with thin red 'teeth' on both the left and right, extending horizontally onto a cyan centre.

Keith Richardson-Jones, Counterpoint 2, 1970

Title, Artist, Year.

A layered, abstract screenprint with a cream-y yellow background. A cresent shaped newspaper cutting and a blue and white patern forma circle in the centre encompasing overlaping shapes of grey, reds, cream and blue. In the lower centre of the design is a simple figure, sat and looking out at the viewer.

Cecile Elstein, A Letter from Mrs Gould, 1981

Title, Artist, Year.

A painting depicts a view of Salford Quay's where the bulidings along the waterfront are refelcted in the water. The abstracted buildings in greys, browns, and blues run across the middle of the painting, while the sky and refelction surronds them, blue at the top and bottom, turning golden at the centre.

Liam Spencer, Salford Quays (Sunset), 2012

Title, Artist, Year.

A view of a desolate and destructed post-apocalyptic Media City with an abandoned forklift loader in the centre.

James Chadderton, Media City (from the Manchester Apocalyse series), 2012

Title, Artist, Year.

A blue-hued snowy street scene shows a group of figures walking up a street lined with redbrick houses towards an illuminated carousel sitting in the top left corner of the image. The scene is viewed from above, as if from the roof of a building in the bottom right.

Harold Riley, The Christmas Roundabout, Salford, 1980

Title, Artist, Year.

A black and white print shows the artist stood in overlaping triplicate, with his feet apart, holding a pistol at waist height, pointed towards the viewer. He is dressed as Sid Vicious, impersonating Elvis.

Gavin Turk, Silver Triple Pop, 2009

Silver Triple Pop, Gavin Turk, 2009

A colourful, overlaping print shows a dotted, orange still-image of Che Guevara from a reel of film, encased in a frame reading 'Tilson' and 'Clip-o-matic' against a black background.

Joe Tilson, Clip-o-Matic Che (Vallegrande Bolivia, October 10th), 1969

Title, Artist, Year.

A screenprint showing an abstracted dog, with a white face, brown ears, and no features, against a dark navy background.

Gilberte Brilliant, Hausser les Épaules, 1965

Title, Artist, Year.

A square abstract screenprint in muted earth-y tones, createing overlaping paterns.

Peter Green, Candy Night 1, 1969

Title, Artist, Year.

R Smallman, Totem, 1970

Title, Artist, Year.

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

Liam Young, Where the City Can't See, 2017

William Mitchell, Untitled, 1966

Untitled,William Mitchell,1966.

a sculpture representing a nurturing pose.

Karen Lyons, Iron, 2007

Clasp,Karen Lyons,2007.

Several chairs are placed in a hallway.

Lizzie King and Craig Tattersall, Allerton to New Adelphi, 2015

Allerton to New Adelphi,Lizzie King and Craig Tattersall,2015.

A man sits on the ground with a mask.

Rachel Goodyear, Unable to Stop because they were too close to the line, 2006

Rachel Goodyear,Unable to Stop because they were too close to the line,2006.

Sculpture of the head of a bearded man.

Jai Redman, Engels’ Beard, 2016

Engels' Beard, Jai Redman, 2016.

some squares crossed together.

Gordon Cheung, Home, 2019

Home, Gordon Cheung, 2019.

Owen Leong, Hole, 2006

Hole,Leong Owen, 2006.

An abstract bring of squares of various shades of yellow

He Xiangyu, Untitled (yellow abstract), 2018

Untitled (yellow abstract),He Xiangyu,2018.

This is a black and white photo depicting a lake.

Liang Yue, untitled and C0011 and C0018, 2018

untitled, Liang Yue, 2018.

A paper boat and a real boat in front of a blue projection.

Chen Ching-Yuan, the (flare-s), 2013

the (flare-s), Chen Ching-Yuan, 2013.

In black and white picture there are many people pouring into the city with mountains in the background.

Yang Yongliang, Mountains of Crowds, 2016

Mountains of Crowds, Yang Yongliang, 2016.

The picture depicts a girl wearing a robot costume of many colors.

Lu Yang, The Great Adventure of Material World #1, 2019

The Great Adventure of Material World #1, Lu Yang, 2019.

Red and yellow marks on a black background create an asbtracted depiction of the map where Salford and Manchester meet.

Lu Xinjian, City DNA/Salford and Manchester, 2015

City DNA/Salford and Manchester,Lu Xinjian,2016.

This is a photo of a letter with a few lines written.

Yan Xing, Letter to Mr Robert Peckham, 2012

Letter to Mr Robert Peckham, Yan Xing, 2012.

There are many books made of ceramics on the table in the picture.

Annie Lai-kuen Wan, Lost in Biliterate and Trilingual, 2014

Lost in Biliterate and Trilingual, Annie Lai Kuen Wan, 2014.