Posts tagged: 2016

Artist: Darren Nixon

Title: The Awkward Ambassador

Year: 2016

Medium: Installation, paint and wood

Dimensions: Variable

Accession Number: US2016-04

Acquisition info: The Awkward Ambassador was commissioned for the collection through the inaugural StudioBook programme with Mark Devereux Projects, 2015/2016.

The installation responds to the notion of how a work of art assumes a restless existence as it finds itself in a public art collection, required to take on different ‘personas’. Installed in three different forms, The Intern, The Mixer and finally The Awkward Ambassador will each portray the work’s shifting relationship with its surroundings, whether in the University’s art stores (the intern) within the campus (the mixer) or when sent out on loan to represent its owner (the awkward ambassador).

In the first persona, the work is stored in seperate pieces, placed around the art store by the artist (and later, relocated as necessary by the curators). It ‘waits’ quietly amid the other works in the store. The second persona takes a wall-based format, protruding into the room, amongst gallery visitors, beginning a new sense of confidence. Finally, when out on loan, the work takes a large, sprawling floor-based format, the beams and panels standing proud like flags.

The colours, patterns and imagery on the panels of the work are inspired by existing works in the University of Salford Art Collection; and can be installed in numerous different configurations each time the work is shown.

Keywords: Installation, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Artist: Maurice Carlin

Title: Temporary Custodians: 54

Year: 2016

Medium: Relief Print

Dimensions: H: 110.7cm W: w 80.8 x h

Accession Number: US2016-12

Acquisition info: Purchased. From a series of 100 unique relief prints, taken directly from the stone flag surface of the derelict 5th floor of Islington Mill. All works were sold individually, both to raise funds for the Mill’s repair, and to instigate a network of collectors – ‘temporary custodians’ – who take the role of advocates and patrons for the Mill’s future.

Artist: Maurice Carlin

Title: Temporary Custodians: 45

Year: 2016

Medium: Relief Print

Dimensions: H: 110.7cm W: w 80.8 x h

Accession Number: US2016-11

Acquisition info: Purchased. From a series of 100 unique relief prints, taken directly from the stone flag surface of the derelict 5th floor of Islington Mill. All works were sold individually, both to raise funds for the Mill’s repair, and to instigate a network of collectors – ‘temporary custodians’ – who take the role of advocates and patrons for the Mill’s future.

Artist: Maurice Carlin

Title: Temporary Custodians: 62

Year: 2016

Medium: Relief Print

Dimensions: H: 110.7cm W: w 80.8 x h

Accession Number: US2016-13

Acquisition info: Purchased. From a series of 100 unique relief prints, taken directly from the stone flag surface of the derelict 5th floor of Islington Mill. All works were sold individually, both to raise funds for the Mill’s repair, and to instigate a network of collectors – ‘temporary custodians’ – who take the role of advocates and patrons for the Mill’s future.

Artist: Maurice Carlin

Title: Temporary Custodians: 53 

Year: 2016

Medium: Relief Print

Dimensions: H: 110.7cm W: w 80.8 x h

Accession Number: US2016-13

Acquisition info: Purchased. From a series of 100 unique relief prints, taken directly from the stone flag surface of the derelict 5th floor of Islington Mill. All works were sold individually, both to raise funds for the Mill’s repair, and to instigate a network of collectors – ‘temporary custodians’ – who take the role of advocates and patrons for the Mill’s future.

Artist: Chris Paul Daniels and Sam Meech

Title: One Square Mile

Year: 2016

Medium: HD Video

Dimensions: Variable. 07m 25s

Accession Number: US2016-15

Acquisition info: One Square Mile was co-commissioned by Quays Culture and University of Salford Art Collection, subsequently entering the University’s Art Collection

Keywords: Video, Salford, Socially Engaged Practice

Artist: Liam Young and Tim Maughan

Title: Where the City Can’t See

Year: 2016

Medium: Digital film, Textile, Book.

Dimensions: Variabele. c.11:0o video, textiles, book.

Accession Number: US2017-03

Acquisition info: Where the City Can’t See was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, St Helens Heart of Glass and University of Salford Art Collection. Produced by Liam Young and Abandon Normal Devices, with support from Forestry Commission England’s Forest Art Works and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Keywords: Digital, Video, City, Book, Textile

Artist: Suki Chan (b.1977)

Title: Lucida

Year: 2016

Medium: 3 Channel High Definition Interactive Video Installation

Dimensions: Variable

Accession Number: US2017-11

Acquisition info: Lucida was commissioned by the University of Salford with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in partnership with the Centre for the Study of the Sense, University of London and Tintype.  Supported by the Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award and Arts Council England.

Suki Chan is a moving image and installation artist. Her practice combines light, image and sound to explore our physical and psychological experience of time and space.  Using meticulously crafted processes and by abstracting familiar materials and objects, Chan creates uncanny narratives that probe the boundaries between private and public space. 

Weaving together images of interior architectural spaces, bio-medical research, and individual testimonies about the experience of perception, Chan’s video project Lucida, exposes the curious and complex relationship between the human eye, the brain, and vision. The project takes its name from the ‘camera lucida’, a 19th century optical device used as a drawing aid. Finding parallels between the camera and the way in which images are projected onto the retina of the eye, Chan has created an artwork that attempts to convey how the outside world is processed by the brain. Lucida seeks to make the viewer distinctly aware of the perceptual processes of seeing by bringing those process – including the flaws, imperfections and assumptions – to the forefront.  

In Lucida viewers are invited to use eye-tracking technology to reveal their own rapid eye movements – something we are normally unaware of. The multi-screen installation reveals how visual information is modified and processed by the eye and the brain in real time. Lucida is a visceral, visual journey in which Chan’s camera is constantly on the move, restlessly travelling through spaces that lead us, like a thread through a maze, into the heart of her subject. Partially filmed in the University of London’s Senate House, the fluid tracking shots through library spaces and boiler rooms suggest a visual analogy for the interior structures of our eyes and brains. 

Artist: Rachel Maclean (b.1987)

Title: Again and Again and Again

Year: 2016

Medium: Digital Video

Duration: 03m 14s

Accession Number: US2017-04

Acquisition info: Again and Again and Again, is an excerpt from It’s What’s Inside That Counts (2016) a digital film focusing on our dependence on technology. Again and Again and Again was co-commissioned with HOME, Manchester and Channel 4 Random Acts in 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 were presented as a diptych. The individual paintings were also shown as part of Art in the Home in York on 9th and 10th July 2016. They were then acquired by the University of Salford.