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Her father Ralph
Stanley Sloan had a brief career as a photographer with studios on Queen Street in Auckland, then as a movie theatre manager, however the bulk of his career was in agriculture. Although a strong history of seafaring is mentioned as inspiration for Sloan's Art practice, the family had
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In 1994, she was awarded the
Committee Cup at the Auckland Handweavers Guild Exhibition, also winning a Merit Award that year at the Combined Textiles Guild Easter Show. In 1996, she won the Premier Award at the Combined Textiles Guild Easter Show. At the 2001 Easter Show she also won a Merit Award.
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Waikato Polytechnic. The following year, she became President of the Auckland Handweavers & Spinners Guild, serving until 1997. From 1996 until 1997, she was also President of the Combined Textile Guilds of NZ. In 1998, she held an exhibition at the Crawford
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a documented history of religious ministry and medical practitioners in the immediate family. Other notable members of the family were Sloan's grandfather, surgeon Hugh Rodger Sloan MD, BSc, DPH, Sir
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