Extinction Rebellion’s powerful approach to protesting against the perceived lack of action being taken by governments to tackle climate change has dominated the news in recent weeks. The group, known colloquially as XR, focus their demonstrations on creating impactful visual metaphors. In conjunction with Design MCR, the Extinction Rebellion Art Group will be partnering with […]
From curator to exhibitor, Mollie Balshaw – one of our BA Visual Arts students – spoke to me about her practice and how it has been influenced by opportunities made available to her whilst studying at the University of Salford. You recently held your student exhibition “Reality: Tap to See More“. What did your role involve? My […]
For one night only on the 19th April 2018, a group of 12 Visual Arts students grouped together from the University of Salford to bring Manchester a night of artwork, sculpture, photography and live performance. I went along to the event to explore the students work, and to see what opportunities studying Visual Arts at […]
A Rubbish Night at the Museum took place last Thursday 19th April at Manchester Museum. I attended the exhibition to seek out recent Visual Arts graduate Claudia Alonso, who was exhibiting work created in response to the #GMTalkingRubbish campaign. I spoke to Claudia about her experience… Claudia, tell us more about the exhibition at Manchester Museum… […]