Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980 – 2000
Victor Sloan
Ormeau Baths Gallery
English
Text by Aidan Dunne and Gerry Burns.
Softcover
155 pages
240 x 290 mm
2001
ISBN Not Available
*This photobook is on loan for the PhotoIreland Festival 2022 from Christine Redmond.*
This is a retrospective of Victor Sloan’s work from 1980 to 2000. Though Sloan is best known for his images of the Orange Order and the marching season, this monograph 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.
(source: http://www.victorsloan.com/2012/01/victor-sloan-selected-works-gallery-of.html)
About the Artist
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.
victorsloan.com
(source: http://www.victorsloan.com/2011/02/about.html)
About the Publisher
The Ormeau Baths in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now a home to tech and digital businesses in a modern contemporary building, was one of Ireland’s premier contemporary art spaces. It curated exhibitions by prominent international artists including; Yoko Ono, Gilbert & George, Victor Sloan, Bill Viola, Hans Peter Kuhn, Stan Douglas, David Byrne, Willie Doherty and Alastair MacLennan. It closed in 2006.
ormeaubaths.com
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormeau_Baths_Gallery)
