Linder

Linder (born 1954, Liverpool) is a British artist known for her photography, photomontage, confrontational performance art and radical feminism. Emerging from the Manchester punk and post-punk scenes in the 1970s, Linder focuses on questions of gender, commodity and display.

Her highly recognisable photomontage practice combines everyday images from domestic or fashion magazines with images from pornography and other archival material. Cut and collaged by hand using a scalpel and glue, the juxtapositions recall a rich art history harking back to Hannah Hoch and the Dadaists. In 1977 Linder created the iconic artwork for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks single Orgasm Addict depicting a female nude with a hand-held iron instead of a head and smiling mouths for nipples.

In 2013 Linder had solo shows at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, The Hepworth Wakefield and at Tate St. Ives. In 2017, she was appointed as the inaugural artist-in-residence at Chatsworth House in 2017. In the same year Linder was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award before going on to commissioned by Art on the Underground in 2018. In 2020 she had a major retrospective “Linderism” at Kettle’s Yard.

Linder is represented by Modern Art London; dépendance, Brussels; Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Paris; and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo.