Victor Sloan

Victor Sloan
"Self-Portrait", silver gelatin print, with coloured pencils, 60 cm x 50 cm, 1993
Born	(1945-07-16) 16 July 1945 (age 71) Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Nationality	Northern Irish
Education	Belfast College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Design
Known for	Photography, Video, Mixed Media

Victor Sloan MBE (born 1945) is a Northern Irish photographer and artist.

Sloan born in 1945 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland). He studied at the Royal School Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, the latter in England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland.

Employing primarily the medium of photography, he manipulates his negatives and reworks his prints with paints, inks, toners and dyes. In addition to photography, he also uses video, and printmaking techniques.

Sloan's works are a response to political, social and religious concerns. He is perhaps best known for his works investigating the Orange Order in series such as: Drumming; The Walk, the Platform and the Field and The Birches.

Sloan was awarded an MBE in 2002. He is an academician of the Royal Ulster Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He won the Academy's Conor Prize in 1988 and the Gold Medal in 1995 and 2008.

The Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast held a major exhibition of his work (Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980–2000) in 2001. In 2008, the exhibition History, Locality, Allegiance, curated by Peter Richards at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, brought together a comprehensive selection of past works, with a particular focus on his video works.

His exhibition Drift, curated by Dr Riann Coulter and Feargal O'Malley in 2014, explored a related though distinct area, tracing the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who settled in Craigavon, Northern Ireland in 1979. Sloan got to know some of these immigrants, and he has rekindled his friendship with one of them, Ka Fue Lay, now living in Salisbury. In a video piece, Sloan recounts his memories of Vietnam and Northern Ireland.