Surreal Sterling: Ten of Linder’s most iconic collages

Renowned for her punk and post-punk game-changing aesthetics, Linder Sterling has made some of the most powerful prints of artistic history.

A radical feminist, Linder has always focused on breaking down boundaries and expectations: cutting out images from porn or domestic women’s magazines, she created montages that shut down the treatment of female body as a commodity. Notorious for creating the artwork of the Buzzcocks’ Orgasm Addict cover, the work exemplified her aesthetic and beliefs: a naked woman with an iron for a head and smiling mouths instead of nipples. Here’s ten of the most iconic collage prints by Linder you should know…

'Orgasm Addict' by the Buzzcocks. Courtesy of the artist.
How Great Thou Art, 2018, photomontage, 20 x 15 cm, 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 ins, (MA-STERL-01211)
Linder, 'Pythia', 2017, Courtesy the artist and Stuart Shave Modern Art Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth
Linder, You search but do not see, 1981-2010. Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Dependance, Andrehn Schiptjenko, Blum & Poe
Linder, 'Edidothea', 2018, Courtesy the artist and Stuart Shave Modern Art Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth
Linder, Untitled (Johnny Ray), 2017. Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Dependance, Andrehn Schiptjenko, Blum & Poe
T-R-O-U-B-L-E, 2018, photomontage, 20 x 15 cm, 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 ins. (MA-STERL-01213)
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Kitty Robson
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Linder Sterling