Artist in various media, born in Guiseley, Yorkshire, who attended Bradford School of Art, 1965–8. He gained Southern Arts Awards in 1986 and 1990 and an Arts Council Award in 1990. Slingsby was a member of LG, also exhibiting in groups at staff exhibition, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1982; Oxford Printmakers at Reading City Art Gallery and Five Artists at Oxford Polytechnic, both 1985; Oxford Artweek Billboard Project, 1989; and in East at Norwich Gallery, 1991. Had a solo show at Bradford University Gallery, 1983, later ones including Morley Gallery, 1993. Slingsby said that his paintings “contain a visual vocabulary of symbolic objects. These objects act out visual dramas commenting on social and political conditions.” Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford University, several Oxford colleges and Yorkshire Arts Association hold examples.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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