News 2001




Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980-2000

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

18 January - 10 March 2001

© Victor Sloan


Victor Sloan was born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1945. He now lives and works in Portadown, Co. Armagh. He uses manipulated photoworks to comment on the various political, social and cultural aspects of Northern Ireland.

Victor Sloan is an artist of prodigious versatility and inventiveness: he has exhibited widely throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia. Over the past twenty years he has been particularly associated with a body of work which has explored the Orange Order and its marching season. While this exhibition acknowledges the significance of this series of works it also aims to reassess earlier and later works, which present a much broader area of study, extending beyond the very narrow reading of his work to date.

A book Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980 - 2000 with text by Aidan Dunne, Art Critic of theIrish Times has been published by the Ormeau Baths Gallery and the Orchard Gallery, Derry to compliment the exhibition.

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Victor Sloan: Selected Works

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.

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Recent Work from Northern Ireland

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada


“TROUBLES” YIELD LAYERED ARTWORKS
Tensions evident beneath surface of Northern Irish images


PLUG IN is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by three artists from Northern Ireland


13 September - 13 October 2001


Victor Sloan, Still Under Siege (1989/99), silver gelatin print, toners and gouache, 4ft.3ins. X 6ft.6ins.


Saturday Art Intensive with Victor Sloan:

September 15, 2pm

Lecture for youth and adults with this senior visiting artist. Free admission, all welcome.

For twenty years, senior artist Victor Sloan has documented public life in Northern Ireland with his unique photographic treatments. His lecture will cover his working methods, techniques and subject matter.

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.

He is best known for his images (measuring between four and six feet wide) of the Orange Order and the marching season, as well as of public life in Portadown, County Armagh. 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.

The exhibition at Plug In showcases two emerging Irish artists, Susan Philipsz and Eoghan McTigue, in addition to large-scale works by Sloan from the past ten years. Philipsz will exhibit a sound work on vinyl, I Remember You, inspired by the James Joyce story The Dead, as well as a cd installation, Company. McTigue will produce public works while in residence at Plug In, utilizing the standard institutional notice board in a comment on painting and display called Empty Sign.

About the artists:

Victor Sloan was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone in 1945. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. 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.

Susan Philipsz:
Born in Glasgow, residing in Belfast, Philipsz has exhibited her haunting recordings throughout Europe, Australia and the United States, in venues as diverse as supermarkets, galleries and public transit. She holds an MFA from the University of Ulster, Belfast, was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Glen Dimplex Artists Award and is currently on a PS1 scholarship in New York City.

Eoghan McTigue:
Originally from Galway, residing in Belfast, McTigue is founder/coordinator of UK art projects such as last order(s), and Grassy Knoll Productions, which re-examine the display of public communications. He holds an MA in Art and Architecture from the Kent Institute of Art & Design, and was recently awarded the Arts Council of Northern Ireland/ CIRCA Bursary in Contemporary Art and Architectural Criticism.

Sloan/Philipsz/McTigue was organized by Wayne Baerwaldt and Valery Camarta

This exhibition has been sponsored by Pollard Banknote Limited, Canada.

PLUG IN gratefully acknowledges the support of The British Council, Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council Bridges Program, The Canada Council for the Arts, Winnipeg Arts Advisory Council, W.H. and S.E. Loewen Foundation, The University of Manitoba School of Art and Architecture, The Winnipeg Foundation, Community Places, New Directions, Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions, Manitoba Education and Training, Peter McConville, our corporate and individual donors, our volunteers, and our members.

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