Victor Sloan: Selected Works at the Gallery of
Photography, Dublin, Ireland.
July 26th to August
28th 2001
Motorway, The Birches (from the series Moving Windows) silver
gelatin print, toner and gouache © Victor Sloan 1985
The Gallery of Photography is pleased to announce a
major retrospective of the work of the Northern Irish artist, Victor
Sloan.
Victor Sloan is an artist of prodigious versatility
and inventiveness. As well as making 'straight' photographs of
considerable poise, he scores and scratches his negatives and
reworks his prints with gouache or crayon.
Though Sloan is best known for his images of the
Orange Order and the marching season, this exhibition includes other
bodies of work such as "Belfast Zoo", "Vietnamese Boat People" and
"Moving Windows". Mixing intimacy with anonymity, the casual with
the formal, Sloan's artistry lies in his ability to bring to the
very surface of the image the tensions underlying the apparent
normality of life in Northern Ireland.
A substantial catalogue, with an extensive essay by
Aidan Dunne, accompanies the show. It is available in the Gallery
Bookshop, at a special exhibition price of £20.00
The Private View took place on Thursday 26th July at
6.30pm. The artist was present.
About the artist
Victor Sloan was born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone in 1945. He studied
painting at Belfast College of Art and was recently elected
Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. He has had solo shows in
Germany, Poland, Sweden, Mexico and the USA, as well as throughout
Ireland and the UK. His work is in many private and public
collections including those of the Imperial War Museum, London, the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the National Museum for Film,
Photography and Television and the Museum of International
Contemporary Art, Brazil.
Thanks to Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Orchard
Gallery, Derry, co-organisers of the exhibition.
Gallery of Photography
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Ireland
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