Christian Sloan is a Northern Irish sculptor who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2024. He specialises in metal and casting techniques and works at Powderhall Bronze Foundry in Edinburgh. He has been awarded the RSA John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, selected for the VAS Graduate Showcase Award, shortlisted for the New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2024, and has exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibition 2024 and VAS centenary exhibition at Dalkeith Palace.
His work depicts objects from a potential future timeline where climate change or nuclear war materialises. The artist believes 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 by taking inspiration from architecture, pollution and industry, with a focus on minimalism and repetition to create simple forms that oppose the busyness of modern technology and society today.
Christian’s exhibited work for RSA New Contemporaries focuses on the sea and sun, the fragility of human structures and the beauty when those structures return to the elements.
