Versatile artist, designer and lecturer, born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, who studied interior design at Glasgow School of Art, 1967–72, winning the Sam Mavor Bequest, 1971. In subsequent years Sloan designed sets for the BBC, was a community artist and, from 1977, taught art and design at Central College of Commerce, eventually based in Hamilton. Over many years he exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and carried out public sculpture commissions in Scotland, his 1995 Apotheosis, in Kilmarnock, gaining a Civic Trust Award. There was a notable series in steel in Glasgow, including, in the 1990s: the stylised Prometheus: The Gift of Science to Liberty, at the University of Strathclyde; the St Rollux Monument, at Cobden Road, Sighthill; and his History of Scottish Theatre series at Hospital Street, Gorbals.