May 9, 2023
In Conversation: Penny Slinger & Polly Borland
On the occasion of Penny Slinger and Polly Borland's exhibition PlayPen at Lyles & King, the artists discuss their collaboration with Speciwomen founder & director Philo Cohen.
Online Viewing Room & Press Release for PlayPen can be found here.
About the artists
Penny Slinger (b.1947, London, UK) has had work exhibited at MoCA, Westport, US; Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; British Museum, London, UK; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, SC; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK; Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL; Monnaie de Paris, Paris, FR; National Museum in the Arts, Washington D.C., US; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, NO; Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK; and Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; among many others. Slinger lives and works in Los Angeles.
Polly Borland (b. 1959, Australia) has had work exhibited at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, AUS; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, AUS; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, US; and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AUS; among many others. Her work is in public and private collections including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, US; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS; and Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection. Borland lives and works in Los Angeles.
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