Penny Slinger

Penny Slinger, sometimes Penelope Slinger, is a British-born American author and artist based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography and film and sculpture, and her work has been described as being in the genre of feminist surrealism.

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Slinger studied at the Chelsea College of Arts in London. She completed her degree in 1969. 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. She wrote and illustrated numerous publications. She staged photographs, sometimes using her own body, to create "hauntingly surreal collages" for a series which she titled An Exorcism. She photographed herself naked to explore ideas relating to dreams, desire, sex, female liberation, surrealism and memory, according to a review in Aesthetica magazine. Some of her art focused on the Arawak peoples of South America and the Caribbean.

Reviewer Kate Galloway in The Guardian described her work as a "grotesque and militant contribution" with a "loud message about silence." As an author, with Nik Douglas, her book Sexual Secrets sold 100,000 copies, and sold over a million copies in 19 translations. In 1977 she published "The Secret Dakini Oracle", a deck of cards for divination. With Douglas and Bhaskar Bhattacharya, she wrote The Path of the Mystic Lover - Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy in 1993, and provided 84 drawings for it. Slinger's work was part of the Angels of Anarchy exhibit at the Manchester Art Gallery in 2009.

Personal life

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. Hills died in 1997 at age 70.