Christian Sloan

Sculpture - BA (Hons)

School of Art

Christiansloanart@gmail.com

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Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts

Artist Statement

Christian Sloan is a Northern Irish sculptor who creates objects from a potential future timeline where climate change or nuclear war materialises, a warning of a deadline that has already passed.

Our ancestors' archaeological legacy encompassed stone, wood, and clay, the structures and objects that lasted to our age. However, modern society's legacy will be concrete, metal, glass, and plastic.

The artist explores these materials using inspirations from architecture, pollution, and industry to create forms and compositions that immerse the viewer in a depiction of scale monumentality: how smaller objects can evoke emotions and the presence of larger structures.

He uses a minimalist style and repetition to create simple forms that oppose the busyness and chaos of modern technology and society today.

ECA Graduate Show 2024

Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts, wide shot

Graduate show 2024, A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam(Centre), Debris(right), The Earth that is Left(left, left), Intersection(left, right))

Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts, taken from behind

Graduate show 2024, A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam(left), Debris(right), The Earth that is Left(centre, left), Intersection(centre, right))

Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts, taken from side and facing window and other students palm tree sculpture

Graduate show 2024, A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam(Centre), Debris(right), The Earth that is Left(left, left), Intersection(left, right)

Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts, taken from front

Graduate show 2024, A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam(Centre), Debris(right), The Earth that is Left(left, left), Intersection(left, right))

Degree show space showcasing steel sculptures and plaster casts, taken from door way

Graduate show 2024, A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam(Centre), Debris(right), The Earth that is Left(left, back), Intersection(left, front)

A Pale Rusted Dot, Suspended in a Sunbeam

Mild Steel

Dimensions Variable

2024

"That’s us […] a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan 1934- 1996

The world is suspended in decisions to be made and actions to be taken, a rusted sphere or a pale blue dot in the cosmos, our planet is insignificant in the universe, but irreplaceable to us. Every achievement, every life, every war, every struggle has happened on this pale blue dot, Its fall or rise is squarely in the hands of humanity.