Christian Sloan

Degree: Sculpture
University: Edinburgh College of Art
Graduation Year: 2024

New Blood Art Commentary

Christian Sloan’s sculptural practice examines the enduring impact of human activity, imagining the artefacts that might be uncovered in a post-apocalyptic future. Using materials like concrete, metal, glass, and plastic, Sloan creates monumental forms that challenge viewers to consider: What will remain of us? What story will our materials and structures tell future generations?

Drawing inspiration from architecture, pollution, and industry, he reimagines the monumental scale of contemporary structures as fragile remnants of an unsustainable civilisation. These works are beautifully crafted, their evocative forms carrying a sense of heartbreaking beauty as they contemplate both the destruction and resilience embedded in human history.

His work transforms industrial remnants into thought-provoking monuments, imagining the stories they might tell in a future shaped by both devastation and resilience.

Artist Statement

I am 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.

I have been most interested in how our ancestors' archaeological legacy encompassed stone, wood, and clay, the structures and objects that lasted to our age. However, I believe modern society's legacy will be concrete, metal, glass, and plastic.

I explore 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.

I use a minimalist style and repetition to create simple forms that oppose the busyness andchaos of modern technology and society today.