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 he 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 will take place on Thursday 26th July at 6.30pm. The
artist will be 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.
IMAGE:
Motorway, The Birches (from the series Moving Windows)
silver gelatin print, toner and gouache
copyright Victor Sloan 1985
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