Linder: What happened when artist Linder took a scalpel to Laura Bailey

Since first coming to prominence with her collage for the sleeve of Buzzcocks’ 1977 single “Orgasm Addict”, which spliced an image of a naked female torso with an iron pinched from an Argos catalogue, Linder Sterling (who goes simply by the name Linder) has become known as one of the art world’s foremost provocateurs. Her irreverent photomontages – in which glossy images of glamorous women and nude pin-ups are juxtaposed with banal household appliances or concealed by blooming flowers – playfully skewer consumer culture and subvert gender norms. The occult and mysticism are long-standing influences, rooted in her fascination with glamour – a word whose etymology she traces back to the early-18th-century Scottish term “glamer”, meaning enchantment or a spell.