The Salford Restoration Office is a curatorial practice that develops projects with cultural institutions in Manchester, addressing questions of artistic context and policy, and generating discussion surrounding the conditions art institutions and artists in the city find themselves operating within. The Salford Restoration Office worked with Dan Shipsides to make Radical Architecture for Castlefield Gallery, and developed The Whitworth Cabinet with The Whitworth Art Gallery. In addition to the activities made in partnership with institutions, they also work with artists active in the region on: Centrifuge (with Imogen Stidworthy, Dirk Fleischmann, Manchester Metropolitan University); and Reading Capital, a reading group dedicated to reading Karl Marx's Capital Vol 1.
They are currently working with nextex, St Gallen, Switzerland and The International 3, Manchester on Between Tracks, and with Jeremy Deller they are curating Procession: An Exhibition, at Cornerhouse, as part of the Manchester International Festival.
The Salford Restoration Office is run by James Hutchinson and Lesley Young. The Salford Restoration Office 142 Chapel Street Salford UK M3 6AF