Posts tagged: Photograph

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: Joshua Turner

Title: A Seat in the Shade

Year: 2020

Medium: C-type photographic print, hand made by the artist.

Dimensions: H: 50.8cm W: 50.8cm

Accession Number:

Acquisition info:

A Seat in the Shade visually encapsulates a search for solitude in Venice, Italy. The print
was handmade by the artist in the colour darkroom, in an edition of 2. This photograph is
from a larger body of work titled Catch Your Breath, a photobook that was self-published
by the artist in 2020. Catch Your Breath is a meditation on the claustrophobia of Venice,
explored through a combination of photography and literature. This project was conceived
during the 2019 Venice Biennale Steward-Research Fellowship, coordinated by the British
Council.

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

Artist: Dan Walmsley and Jai Redman (1971 -)

Title: Jai Redman In the Studio (b)

Year: 2016

Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: Digital Photograph

Accession Number: US2016-16b

Acquisition info:

Photo documentation of creative process behind Engel’s Beard.

Artist: Dan Walmsley and Jai Redman (1971 -)

Title: Jai Redman In the Studio (a)

Year: 2016

Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: Digital Photograph

Accession Number: US2016-16a

Acquisition info: Photo documentation of creative process behind Engel’s Beard

Artist: Harold Riley (1934 – 2023)

Title: Alice Fairweather

Year: 1960

Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: H: 72.5cm W: 55.5cm

Accession Number: 358 & GMC 1979/P3

Artist: Glen Onwin (1947 – )

Title: Salt Box and Skimmer – The Recovery of Dissolved Substances

Year: 1976/1977

Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: Various

Accession Number: 192

Artist: Owen Leong

Title: Hole

Year: 2006

Medium: Digital print

Dimensions: 110 x 140cm

Accession Number: US2019-01

Acquisition info:

During a residency in Manchester in 2006, Leong borrowed aristocratic costumes from Manchester theatres, to explore connotations of class and status – continuing a wider body of work which examines systems and symbols of representation, power, identity and culture. The small hole digitally created on the figure’s wrist suggests a ‘rupture’ in our expected perceptions of identity – who is this figure and what positions of authority or status may they possess?

Chinese-Australian artist Leong works in performance, photography, sculpture and video. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Artereal Gallery, Sydney (2021) and group shows at: Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021), Newcastle Art Gallery (2019) and Art Central Hong Kong (2017).

This work was gifted from the artist and the CFCCA archives in 2019.