Forthcoming exhibitions
Olympic Celebration!
Saturday 25 February 2012 to Sunday 15 April 2012
This exhibition showcases work of talented artists aged from five to eleven.
They are pupils from three Salford primary schools:
- St Boniface's
- Cathedral School of St Peter and St John
- St Luke's Church of England
They have worked together with artists Paul Hamilton and Maureen Neill over the past few months to create stunning representations in 2D and 3D to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics.
1984 looks like this
Saturday 17 March 2012 to Sunday 1 July 2012
What does 1984 look like? Is Big Brother watching you on CCTV?
Documentary photographer David Dunnico asks you these questions in a two-part exhibition.
For a number of years, he has documented the rise of CCTV surveillance in a series of graphic black and white images. Alongside this, Dunnico has built up a collection of editions and ephemera about George Orwell's 1984 - the book's changing covers tell how every new generation of readers finds Orwell's work frightingly relevant to their own times.
We bring both of these together so you can decide is Big Brother watching you?
Kathleen Walne: the Salford collection
Saturday 28 April 2012 to Sunday 15 July 2012
Following the death of the artist Kathleen Walne in June 2011, Salford Museum will be displaying their entire collection of her work, many of which haven not been seen for 26 years.
A much acclaimed watercolour artist hailed as being ahead of her time, Kathleen had the ability to create unusual designs enriched with wine-rich pigment.
The Wondrous Collection of Encapsulated Time: an exhibition by Sue Platt
Saturday 14 July to Sunday 4 November 2012
Time rules the modern world and out lives. Practically every room in people's houses contains at least one clock, as part of the cooker, DVD player or central heating system. Not to mention wrist watches, built into the car dashboard, mobile phones and so on.
Sue Platt's fascination lies not with these clocks, but ones that have become dysfunctional, clocks that were clockwork, that had to be wound up and involved effort to keep on time. Sue transforms these clock cases into small cabinets, tiny theatres to show scenarios, a moment caught in time. Instead of telling the time, these clocks now each have a different story to communicate. Each piece is a small comment on the world around us, be it humorous or tragic, analytical or earnest.
Sue's work is inspired by the Victorian's fascination with collecting weird and wonderful artefacts to display in cabinets or curiosities.
For more information please visit Sue Platt's website.
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This page was last updated on 17 February 2012
