Still buzzing
This is actually a lightbox redux of Linder Sterling’s best-known work, the 1977 collage used on the sleeve of the Buzzcocks’ Orgasm Addict. Forty years on, its two-fingered salute to the patriarchy remains as fierce and funny as ever.
Glam shock
This is an Amazon with a sense of humour: the iron, age-old symbol of domestic drudgery, becomes a warrior’s helmet. It has an angry glamour, as seductive as it is scalding.
Woman’s own
It’s from a series created while Linder was living with original Buzzcocks frontman Howard Devoto, which collided porn with snippets from mags such as Woman’s Own. Her touchstones included the anti-fascist photomontages of John Heartfield. It also kicked against the canon of surrealist artists whose work cut up, bound and generally objectified women’s bodies in the name of sexual liberation.
Sound and vision
Linder’s work with the Buzzcocks and her art fanzine The Secret Public, created with music-writing great Jon Savage, helped define the identity of the Manchester punk scene. She is famed, too, for a close friendship with Morrissey.
Part of Dreamers Awake, White Cube Bermondsey, SE1, to 17 September
