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"Penny Slinger is an avant-garde artist from Great Britain and a celebrated figure in the early feminist art movement. She is known for her radical, erotic, and mystical photo collages.While studying at the Chelsea College of Arts, Penny became heavily influenced by Max Ernest and mid-1920s surrealism. At the start of her career, she developed a series of early films that used her body as a canvas, surveying unsettling and macabre topics such as the relationship between architecture and decay, altered states of consciousness, and the occult. Experimenting with mediums such as collage and photography, Penny would elicit upheaval in her exhibitions throughout the UK.
"Spectacle is honored to host her for a Q&A on September 17 where we will show Lilford Hall and An Exorcism, The Works together.
The entire program, Alchemy and Ecstasy, will feature three films from Penny Slinger to feature an overview of her early video art from the 1960s to the 1970s– a formative period in her overall career, which has spanned over five decades."