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Photography
Website - http://www.victorsloan.co.uk
Email - [email protected]
Victor Sloan is one of Ireland's major visual artists. He was born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone
in Northern Ireland. He lives and works in Portadown, Co. Armagh. He studied at Belfast and
Leeds Colleges of Art. Victor Sloan is an influential artist and educator. He has developed an
international reputation for creating powerful images, which display his prodigious
versatility and inventiveness.
He is known for his works commenting on various political, social and cultural aspects of
Northern Ireland. As well as working with the medium of photography, he also uses video,
etching and screen-printing.
The Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast initiated a major retrospective exhibition in 2001, which
was curated by Hugh Mulholland.
In 2002 Victor Sloan was awarded an MBE. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a
Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and an academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. He
has won many awards including the Academy’s Conor Prize in 1988 and the Gold Medal in
1995.
Victor Sloan has exhibited widely throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
His work is to be found in numerous private and public collections worldwide.
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