Ceramic sculptor and teacher whose work drew on an extensive knowledge of ceramics through the centuries, the work of the American artist Kenneth Price being an influence. Slee studied at Central School of Art & Design and Royal College of Art and in 1998, when he was featured in Atlantic Crossings at Barbican Centre, was a professor at the London Institute and director of the ceramics degree course at Camberwell College of Arts. In 2003, he was included in Painting Not Painting at Tate St Ives, when he presented a unique installation of eighty multiples. Slee was noted for his fantastic sculptural ceramics using colourful glazes in hues associated with decorative porcelain of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His animals and vessels were described as “an ironic reconstruction of ceramic practice.