Linder Sterling

The career of Linder Sterling (*1954 Liverpool) stretches over three decades and numerous areas of cultural production. She emerged as one of the leading figures in Manchester's heavily documented music scene towards the end of the 1970s. Pioneering avant garde process and production within 'DIY' media, her Factory Records catalogued 'menstrual Egg Timer', her graphic work (most particularly her striking photomontage for Buzzcocks' 'Orgasm Addict' single sleeve) and her post punk jazz experimentalist group Ludus (recording for the Brussels label Les Disques du Crepuscule in the early 80's) were all regarded by artist as sharing artistic parity and cultural status.

Sterling's lifelong friendship with the singer Morrissey resulted in some collaborative work between the two during the early 1990s. Sterling is an artist for whom - in an extrapolation of Pop art - the mainstream commercial world of popular culture is as suitable a venue as the gallery. Much of her work realises a dialogue between artisan popular culture and fine art.

Primarily, Linder is an artist who has devoted her career to exploring the widest possible potential of collage. For the Tate Triennial 2006, she re-made her performance 'The Working Class Goes To Paradise' (2000) in which three rock bands play simultaneously for four hours amidst a montage of choreography and projected images.

For Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go, the principles of collage are further refined, simultaneously expanding and excavating Sterling's interests to date. Increasingly compared to Raoul Hausmann, Richard Hamilton and Hannah Hoch, Sterling's burnt and accessorised collages can be read as connecting the surrealist tradition to postmodern practice by way of Pop art.

exhibitions 2006 The Secret Public: The last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988 - Kunstverein Munchen We Who Are Her Hero - Galerie LH, Paris Dereconstruction - Gladstone Gallery, New York Audio - Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva Le Sphere Punk - Magasin, Grenoble The Working Class Goes To Paradise - Tate Britain

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Linder Sterling