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Victor Sloan MBE (born 1945 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish photographer and artist. ==Life and work== Victor Sloan studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, 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.〔Dunne, Aidan (2001). Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980–2000. Belfast: Ormeau Baths Gallery. ISBN 0-9540086-0-X〕 His 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''.〔Graham, Colin, (2013), Sloan, Victor in Northern Ireland: 30 years of Photography, Belfast Exposed/The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, ISBN 978-0-9561766-1-5〕 Victor 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.〔http://www.victorsloan.com/〕 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.〔http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/old/goldenthreadgalleryexhibitions2008historylocalityallegiance.htm〕 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. Victor 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.〔http://www.nimc.co.uk/whats-on/event/672/drift-an-exhibition-of-artworks-by-victor-sloan-relating-to-the-vietnamese-boat-people-craigavon/〕 Books about Victor Sloan and his work include ''Marking the North'' by Brian McAvera (1989),〔McAvera, Brian (1989). Marking The North-The Work of Victor Sloan. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 1-872496-01-6〕 ''Victor Sloan: Selected Works'' by Aidan Dunne (2001),〔Dunne, Aidan (2001). Victor Sloan: Selected Works 1980–2000. Belfast: Ormeau Baths Gallery. ISBN 0-9540086-0-X〕 ''Victor Sloan: Walk'', by Jürgen Schneider (2004),〔Schneider, Jürgen (2004). Victor Sloan: Walk. Augsburg, Germany: Kulturbüro der Stadt〕 ''Luxus'' by Glenn Patterson (2007) and ''Drift'' by Justin Carville and Ken Grant (2015). In Ireland and the UK, Sloan's work is included in public collections such as the Arts Council of Northern Ireland;〔http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/artwork/imu/〕 the Ulster Museum; the State Art Collection, Ireland; the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland; the British Telecommunications, the Millennium New Media Collection; the Imperial War Museum, London〔http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/museum-members/imperial-war-museum-london/〕 and the National Media Museum, Bradford, England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Sloan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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