The Salford Restoration Office

The Salford Restoration Office developed projects with cultural institutions in Manchester between 2007 and 2010. Projects addressed questions of artistic context and policy, and generated discussion surrounding the conditions art institutions and artists in the city found themselves operating within. The Salford Restoration Office worked with Dan Shipsides to make Radical Architecture for Castlefield Gallery; developed The Whitworth Cabinet with The Whitworth Art Gallery; worked with nextex, St Gallen, Switzerland and The International 3, Manchester on Between Tracks, and curated Jeremy Deller Procession: An Exhibition, at Cornerhouse, as part of the 2009 Manchester International Festival. In addition to the activities made in partnership with institutions, they also worked with artists active in the region on: Centrifuge a professional development project for artists based in the north of England and Reading Capital a reading group dedicated to reading Karl Marx’s Capital Vol.1.

In November 2009 the first major UK survey of Artur Zmijewski's work opened at Cornerhouse. Curated by The Salford Restoration Office, the exhibition will tour to the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (23 July – 25 September) and Tramway, Glasgow (29 October – 19 December 2010).

The Salford Restoration Office is run by James Hutchinson and Lesley Young, and is currently based in Glasgow.

The Salford Restoration Office
305 Onslow Drive
Glasgow, UK
G31 2QQ

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