2020's
As a mature artist, this decade brings a deepened awareness of mortality and legacy, not as limits, but as calls to action. Past exclusions have given way to an unshakeable sense of value in the choices made and the work continues with renewed clarity.
Richtersveld field trips have resumed with greater intensity, while a return to oil painting has reawakened the medium that first defined his career. Even in an art world shaped by algorithms and visibility metrics, Slingsby’s creative force endures, more grounded, more vital, and more resolved than ever.
2021
Magnitude eight point one
Oil on canvas
146 x 122 cm
2021
Qui me calcas calcaberis et tu id cogita et ora pro me
Oil on canvas
245 x 104 cm
"The lotus flower, which has defined my art since 2021, is a hallucinogenic flower, which flourished in the Blue Nile. It’s depicted on the walls of pharaonic monumental temples and tombs, and is associated with the culture, glory and excesses of ancient Egypt. It is symbolic of the impact of modernity on Africa’s traditional communities through Anthropocene man’s activities."
2021
One night in Aksum
Oil on canvas
"My interest in the history of civilisation, has taken me to many great sites defined by astonishing megaliths. I’d read about Aksum, situated in Northern Ethiopia, but the scale and refinement of this sites megaliths, including this massive obelisk represented in my latest painting, was spectacular."
2024
Flipping the bliss
Oil on canvas
150 x 120 cm
2025
Sting
Oil on canvas
160 x 210 cm