Troy Slater
Troy Slater is an artist and musician based in the city of Carlisle. Troy currently sustains a successful career as a tattoo artist while maintaining a strong presence in the fine art and music scene. Although he likes to work in many mediums and turn his hand to a myriad of creative pursuits, Troy built his reputation through his acrylic portraiture paintings of musicians.
Over 28 years as a working creative he has acquired a variety of achievements to colour his CV, from art fairs such as the London Affordable Art Fair & Manchester Art fair through to self produced exhibitions, collaborations and commissions. His commissioned work has stretched as far afield as Australia and the United States.
Troy has painted murals for nightclubs and a radio station, painted an album cover for Swedish band Eternal Lies, illustrated a book, recorded and released original music, performed live to audiences as large as 9000 people, filmed and edited music videos, documented fellow Cumbrian artist Daniel Ibbotson at the Venice Biennale, tattooed at the Edmonton tattoo and arts convention in Canada and won the Carlisle Living Award twice, the second time as part of the West Walls Artists collaborative and their 2019 Now exhibition.
Having such a broad experience in many creative fields has led Troy to his latest and most expansive project for 2023, a portion of which will be on display at Gallery Northwest this summer. Having spent a lifetime frustrated with systems funnelling artists to be specialists, a natural generalist, Troys newest work is a legitimate cross genre, multimedia work.
Sincere, uncompromising and rebellious, this new and focussed work will challenge tropes and signify an assertion from the artist.
“Creativity should be unbound, untethered and have a semblance of anarchy. Challenging the status quo should only ever be second to challenging ones self as a thinking, conscious artist. To be contained is anti-art. To create work simply to be commercial neuters the creative mind and who knows what beauty would be lost, what truth remains unlearned. An artist, above all, should be authentic.”
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