Linder Sterling

Linder Sterling

Linder Sterling is a British artist who is known for her feminist collages. She has been influenced from the Manchester Punk scene during the 1970s. This aided in her work and possibly her perspectives. She looks to commodity and gender for inspiration in her art. She uses a tradition methodology of cutting and paste images from magazines and porn. She often uses images from fashion and lifestyle magazine in combination with image of women in porn. Her work is popular, in 2018 she created a 85 metre billboard at Southwark station; she was commissioned by Art on the Underground. 

This image (see fig. 1) was used on the music group, the Buzzcocks album cover. This image was created by Sterling. She combined an image of a women naked with an image of an iron. The women is standing in a provocative way, with her arms raised and her hip jutted to the side. Her head has been replaced with an iron. The iron is pointing upwards, in line with where her head should be. Sterling has placed an image of a mouth smiling over the woman’s nipples. There is a noticeable comparison between the shiny plastic and metal of the iron with the woman’s skin which has been oiled. Her image is simple, only being made up of four piece but it is effective and does make the viewer think. 

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Figures

Fig. 1. Sterling, L (1976) Untitled [Photograph – Online]. At: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/Linder-untitled-t12501 (Accessed on 11th of December 2019).  

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Bibliography 

Manchester, E (2007) Untitled 1976. At: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/Linder-untitled-t12501 (Accessed on 11th of December 2019).  

Tate. Linder. At: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/Linder-10844 (Accessed on 11th of December 2019).