Penny Slinger, sometimes Penelope Slinger, is a British-born American artist and author based in California.
28 Facts About Penny Slinger
1.
2.
Penny Slinger's work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism.
3.
Penny Slinger's work explores the nature of the self, the feminine and the erotic.
4.
Penny Slinger studied at the Chelsea College of Arts in London where she made a series of short films that were later shown at Anthology Film Archives in 2019.
5.
Penny Slinger completed her degree with a First Class Honours Diploma in Art and Design in 1969.
6.
Penny Slinger was accepted into the Royal College of Art Film post graduate course, but did not take it up.
7.
In 1971 Penny Slinger had her first solo exhibition at Angela Flowers Gallery, London, featuring assemblages of lifecasts of her head and transformed dolls.
8.
Penny Slinger focused on surrealism in the 1960s and the 1970s to "plumb the depths of the feminine psyche and subconscious," according to a review in ArtDaily magazine.
9.
Penny Slinger staged photographs, sometimes using her own body, to create "hauntingly surreal collages" for a series which she titled An Exorcism.
10.
Penny Slinger's work was part of the Angels of Anarchy exhibit at the Manchester Art Gallery in 2009.
11.
In 1971 Penny Slinger joined the first British all women theatre troupe, Holocaust, directed by Jane Arden because she said she wanted to contribute her talents to something bigger than herself, and the intentions of the group felt in alignment with her own resolve to delve deeply into and express the unearthed realms of the feminine psyche.
12.
Penny Slinger created masks for the surrealist play Lying Figures by Francis Warner, premiered at Edinburgh Festival 1971.
13.
Penny Slinger was design collaborator with Carolee Schneemann on The Four Little Girls by Pablo Picasso, at the Open Space Theater London, 1971.
14.
In 1972 Penny Slinger participated in the controversial cult classic, The Other Side of the Underneath, directed by Jane Arden and shot on location in Wales.
15.
Penny Slinger had a major performing role and co art directed the movie.
16.
Penny Slinger had been working on using the Xerox copying machine to make mono prints of her face and body since she was teaching at Portsmouth College of Art in 1973.
17.
Penny Slinger decided to use her talents to contribute to the local culture.
18.
Penny Slinger made a series of detailed drawings of Arawak artifacts.
19.
Penny Slinger lived with Dr Christopher Hills in Boulder Creek, California, until Hills' death in 1997.
20.
Penny Slinger continued to live on the northern California property until 2017, dedicating the property to the arts, inviting the creative people of the region to participate in many events she hosted over the years.
21.
In 2019, Penny Slinger was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director at Dior, to transform the historical building at 30 Avenue Montaigne, Paris for the last fashion show before the building underwent renovation as part of the Dior Megastore.
22.
Penny Slinger designed the last look of the haute couture show, a gold leafed wearable doll house based on 30 Avenue Montaigne.
23.
Penny Slinger created a series of photo collages during the Pandemic entitled My Body In a Box.
24.
Penny Slinger-Out of the Shadows, 2017, is a documentary by Richard Kovitch focusing on Penny's life and work in the 1960s and 1970s, revealing the pioneering nature of her work.
25.
From 2018 Penny Slinger has resided in Los Angeles where she has been working on a series of large format prints of digital collages utilizing her own body as a body of experience.
26.
Penny Slinger was partners with filmmaker Peter Whitehead from 1969 to 1972.
27.
Penny Slinger was married to microbiologist Christopher Hills, the co-discoverer of the protein-rich plankton spirulina and co-founder of the University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California.
28.
Since 2001, Penny Slinger has worked with her creative partner, multidisciplinary artist Dhiren Dasu.