Author: Lindsay Taylor

Lindsay is Director of the University of Salford Art Collection which she has led since 2013. She is passionate about contemporary art and collections, developing bold and innovative programmes, usually in partnership with both arts and non arts organisations, that are relevant to place, context and communities as well as socio-political agendas. Recent projects and commissions include OFFSHOOT (Yan Wang Preston) with RHS Garden Bridgewater and Open Eye Gallery, Hybrid Futures (Shezad Dawood, RA Walden, Parham Ghalamdar, Jessica El Mal) with Castlefield Gallery, Touchstones Rochdale, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool and Salford Museum and Art Gallery and The Storm Cone with Laura Daly (Salford, Southend, Blackpool and Portsmouth). Previously she has worked at Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Tate Liverpool and The Walker, Liverpool. She is currently a Trustee of the Peter Scott Gallery Trust at Lancaster University and on the Advisory Board of the Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool.