Vikki Slowe (1947–2013) was an English

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

and

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Slowe produced etchings. She illustrated the book ''Purple & Green: Poems by Thirty-Three Women Poets''. Slowe's works are held in the collections of the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. and the Imperial Health Charity Art Collection. Her artworks have received coverage in the

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of the

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in London (where she exhibited in 1973, 1975, and 1988), from the

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in the United States, and the

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. She has received mention in the magazines '' Ambit'', '' The Artist'', and '' Country Life''. She was an Honorary Curator for the

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and a member of the Royal Free Charity Works of Art Committee associated with the

Royal Free Hospital The Royal Free Hospital (also known as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barnet Ho ...

in London.

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