Posts tagged: 2015

Artist: Meg Woods

Title: Condescending Order 1-5

Year: 2015

Medium: Paper Zines.

Dimensions: Multiple, A5

Accession Number: US2015-10

Acquisition info:

Condescending Order is a series of zines produced on a monthly basis, reflecting current political themes.  Usually produced in an A5 booklet format, each zine has a variety of formats including poetry, collage and illustration.

This work was gifted to the University Collection at the culmination of the artists Graduate Scholarship residency programme.

Artist: Claudia Alonso

Title: Jackie Kay

Year: 2015

Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: H: 85.5cm W: 99cm

Accession Number: US2015-14

Acquisition info:

This portrait was commissioned by the University of Salford at the installation of Jackie Kay as the new Chancellor. Alonso, then a first year BA Visual Arts student, was selected by a panel for the commission, alongside Rory Mullen (MA Visual Arts). Alonso chose to undertake the photoshoot at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, reflecting on Kay’s background in poetry and literature.

Alonso was born in Spain and studied Graphic Design and Advertising before undertaking Visual Arts at the University of Salford. Photography is at the core of her creative practice, with recent projects also branching out into textiles and printmaking.

Artist: Lizzie King and Craig Tattersall

Title: Allerton to New Adelphi

Year: 2015

Medium: C-Type Print of 24 8”X 10” Original Silver Gelatin Prints

Dimensions: 822 x 1685mm

Accession Number: US2015-13d

Acquisition info:

Lizzie King & Craig Tattersall work collaboratively with an emphasis on creating work using analogue photographic techniques, often making work that speaks about the process. Within their artwork there is a strong interest in ephemerality and erasure through repetition. The work tends to acknowledge and reflect upon imperfections and flaws. Through micro detail and emphasis these are brought to the forefront challenging modern ideals of perfection in a digital age.  The artists work responsively to the processes they deal with, working with its limitations, not looking to control the process but allow the process to communicate.

Allerton to New Adelphi was a commission for The University of Salford of four C-Type prints from multiple original 8X10″ Silver Gelatin Negatives, depicting the transition of the University’s art facilities from Allerton Studios to the New Adelphi building.

Allerton Studios, Hallway and Studios are three 822 x 1685mm prints taken with a handmade large analogue camera built by the artists.  New Adelphi Taken by Allerton is a 2346 x 1076mm print created by turning a room in Allerton building into a camera, projecting the new building into the old, and taking a large negative. The print depicts the construction of New Adelphi and shows it in its place within Salford and into Manchester.

Artists’ website: https://cargocollective.com/lightspills

Lizzie King and Craig Tattersall, from left to right: Allerton Studios, Hallway and on bottom: New Adelphi Taken by Allerton. Images courtesy of the artists.

Artist: Wu Chi-Tsung

Title: Wrinkled Texture 027

Year: 2015

Medium: Photography, cyanotype

Dimensions: Approx. 178 x 44cm

Accession Number: US2015-16

Acquisition info:

Chi-Tsung is concerned with the poetics of nature and the intersection of traditional art forms and contemporary technology. Wrinkled Texture 027 re-interprets traditional Chinese landscape painting (Shan shui). Exploring the textures of mountain terrains, the flows of rivers and water, or celebrating the quiet beauty found in nature, Shan shui paintings traditionally offer a subjective view of nature, while demonstrating the artist’s calligraphic skill. In Wrinkled Texture, Chi-Tsung takes an innovative approach to Shan shui, by working with the photographic ‘cyanotype’ technique. Covered in photosensitive solutions, rice paper sheets were folded and reshaped while being exposed to sunlight for thirty minutes. After the paper was washed, the creases, lines and folds were fixed as an abstract image of blue hues and textures, akin to mountain precipices and cliffs. Substituting ink washes and calligraphic lines with experimental photographic techniques, the artist reinterprets the imaginary landscapes of ancient Chinese culture.  

Wu Chi-Tsung, Wrinkled Texture 027, 2015. Cyanotype. Installation shot at St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. Photograph by Pete Carr.

Wu received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2004. He has exhibited widely in Taiwan and across China. Sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, his work first toured the UK in a solo show in 2014, delivered by a partnership programme between the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Live at LICA, Lancaster and Site Gallery, Sheffield. In 2014, he was listed as one of the top 10 artists under 35 by the international website Artsy. Exhibitions include: PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool (2018); Far from East, Kϋnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2017); Inward-scape, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong; Dust, Site Gallery Sheffield, UK; Recalibrate, Peter Scott Gallery and The Storey, Lancaster, UK (2014). 

Artist’s website: http://wuchitsung.com/

Artist: susan pui san lok

Title: RoCH Fans and Legends

Year: 2015

Medium: Digital video

Dimensions: 3-screen projected moving image installation piece.

Accession Number: US2017-10

Acquisition info:

susan pui san lok is an artist, researcher and writer based in London. Projects range across installation, moving image, sound, text and performance – evolving out of interests in notions of nostalgia and aspiration, place and migration, translation and diaspora. 

RoCH Fans and Legends is a body of work that draws on over forty different film, television, anime and comic book adaptations of The Condor Trilogy, a series of books written by Jin Yong (Louis Cha) and published between 1957 and 1961. The series is regarded as a classic of the ‘new wuxia’ (martial heroes) genre of Chinese literature, which follows the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. The project title derives from the second book The Return of the Condor Heroes (1959), while also referring to the proliferation of bootlegged and on-line films supplemented by fan-generated translations, overdubbing, and subtitles; not to mention the fan-fiction extensions to the series. Collating various scenes, moments and moving images, lok considers the recurring tropes and motifs that have survived in each new articulation of the series – the fantasies, legends, and archetypes.

RoCH Fans and Legends premiered at QUAD, Derby (November 2015) and was exhibited at CFCCA, Manchester 30th anniversary exhibition (2016). 

Artist susan pui san lok, Trailers (from ROCH fans and legends). Installation photograph at St. George’s Hall Liverpool. Photographer Pete Carr.

Recent exhibitions include Diaspora Pavilion,  Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, (2018); PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool (2018); Sonic Soundings, Venice / www.echoes.xyz  (2017); Diaspora Pavilion, Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice, (2017); Deviant Practice Research Residency, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2017); Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2017); 1st Asia Biennial & 5th Guangzhou Triennial, Hong Kong (2015-16). 

Artist’s website: https://spsl-studio.com/ 

Commissioned by the University of Salford Art Collection with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in partnership with QUAD, Derby and Animate Projects.

Artist: Willow Rowlands

Title: A Way of Organising a Pig

Year: 2015

Medium: Terracotta Clay

Dimensions: Approx H: 25cm W: 22cm D: 22cm

Accession Number: US2015-9

Acquisition info:

This peice was gifted to the University Collection at the culmination of the artists Graduate Scholarship residency programme.

Artist: Rory Mullen

Title: Portrait of Chancellor Jackie Kay

Year: 2015

Medium: Photograph, C-Type Print on Perspex Mount

Dimensions:

Accession Number: US2015-02

Acquisition info: Chancellor Portrait Commission

Artist: Li Binyuan (b.1985)

Title: Deathless Love

Year: 2015

Medium: Performance, Video Documentation of Performance, a Hammer.

Dimensions: 58m 43s

Accession Number: US2015-12

Acquisition info:

Deathless Love was performed to a live audience at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) during Manchester After Hours 2015, a citywide evening celebration of Manchester’s culture. Binyuan sat on a rectangular concrete plinth, surrounded by around 100 hammers that he then destroyed using only the other hammers and his own physical strength. The endurance performance continued until all the hammers except the last, were broken.  The performance, which premiered in Beijing in 2012, interrogates ideas of artistic labour and production, the body as sculpture, and themes of repetition and reaction.  

The 2015 performance was commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection as part of his solo exhibition Social Behaviours at CFCCA, which explored Binyuan’s sense of humour, expression and provocation and maverick, anarchic and irreverent approaches.  The acquisition includes a specially commissioned film (in single channel and five channel versions) of the live performance, as well as the last remaining hammer.  The film commission was produced by Steve McWade, a North West based artist and musician whose practice explores live performance, technology and interactive work. 

The acquisition includes a specially commissioned film (in single channel and five channel versions) of the live performance, as well as the last remaining hammer.  The film commission was produced by Steve McWade, a North West based artist and musician whose practice explores live performance, technology and interactive work. 

Artist: Pat Flynn (b.1972)

Title(s): Cheese, Cheese Selection and Cheese Hole

Year: 2015

Medium: C-type prints on di-bond 52.5cm x 70cm Edition of 5 +1AP

Dimensions: H: 52.5cm W:52.5cm, H: 52.5cm W:52.5cm, H: 52.5cm W:70cm

Accession Number: US2016-05 (a-c)

Acquisition info: Acquired in 2015, from the International 3 Gallery

Keywords: Digital, Rendered,

Artist: Hazel Rebecca Clegg

Title: Untitled Series

Year: 2015

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: H: 183cm W:138cm

Accession Number: US2018-02 (A-F) – work is one of 6 paintings in a series.

Acquisition info: Acquired through the University of Salford’s Graduate Scholars programme.

Keywords: Women Artists, Painting, Portrait, Body

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled A, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled B, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled C, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled D, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled E, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Untitled F, 2015. Image Courtesy of the Artist.