In June last year I was walking with the artist Linder Sterling in the ancient coastal woodlands just below Mount Stuart, a spectacular 19th-century Gothic house on the Scottish island of Bute. It was a sunny morning, but suddenly the atmosphere changed. A strong gust of wind shook leaves and caused boughs to creak, while gnarled trunks and twisted branches appeared to loom a little closer. The moment passed, but we both felt it. Indeed, that intense, inexplicable frisson, which Linder described at the time as “a force”, reverberated through both iterations of A kind of glamour about me, her powerful new performance work co-commissioned by Mount Stuart Trust and Edinburgh Art Festival, and presented in two Scottish locations this summer.
Linder: Linder’s performances were transportive over the summer—now one has been purchased for the first time
Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, September 30, 2025
