Veronica Slater

Veronica Slater (b 1958) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, film and installation. She studied at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts (UCL), London, and later completed an MAFA at the University of Northumbria.

Slater’s practice emerged from the political climate of the 1980s, addressing LGBTQ+ identity and visibility within the hostile environment of the time. Reworking strategies associated with artists such as Andy Warhol, she reinserts lesbians into the art historical canon, notably in Soul identified as Flesh. The work was shown in the landmark exhibition Along the Lines of Resistance (1988), and more recently in A Tall Order (Rochdale Art Gallery, 2023) and Women in Revolt! (Tate Britain (2023); the Whitworth, Manchester 2025).

Describing herself as a “cultural sniper” (after Jo Spence), Slater has embedded her work within pockets of resistance, including Intervening Spaces and the touring exhibition The Borrowed Image (1995–96) which gave Slater the opportunity to once again, address LGBTQ+ representation within the historical cannon. This was further explored in the book ‘Outlooks -Lesbian & Gay Sexualities & Visual Cultures’.

Themes of home, place and displacement developed through her time on the Isle of Mull with the artists’ collective 6°WEST, whose project INCH KENNETH toured Scotland and featured at the Edinburgh Festival (2012), later travelling to be part of Multiple Histories-Distant Horizons (2013) at Stewart Hall, Montreal, Canada, where Slater was artist in residence.

thisHOUSE? follows on in a series of paintings which is a memorial narrative of how trauma and pain has lived within a survivor and was shown in the exhibition Hidden in Plain Site (Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London 2022) which she also co-curated.

Artist's Residences have included James Cook University of North Queensland, and Tasmania, Australia (2025), Vermont Studio Center, USA, KulttuuriKauppilla, Finland for which she received an individual Scottish Arts Council Award and 6°WEST, INCH KENNETH, was funded by Hi-Arts and Creative Scotland.

Notable solo exhibitions are Visions of Paradise, Oldham Art Gallery 1992, with work featured in Dammed Fine Art, a lesbian artists anthology, by Cherry Smyth, CARAVAN, An Tobar, Isle of Mull 2008, Meidän Talo, Ii, Finland 2010, and in 2021, ‘Decorum & Dissent’ at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton, where Slater now lives and works.