Linder: studio spotlight

The celebrated British artist Linder is keen to extol the accessibility of the photomontages with which she has become synonymous; ‘You can go to any high street and buy a tube of glue, a magazine and a pair of scissors and you can make work, you don’t need a studio.’

Thankfully for us, Linder does require a studio and ahead of her first London retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, Danger Came Smiling, she led ArtsReview’s Fi Churchman on this video tour of her creative space.
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The tour sees Linder describe how she works in the studio – including the spaces she gravitates to for different aspects – and the tools she uses to create her art; her preferred scalpels and glues, and her collections of archive magazines and books which provide the source material for her photomontages.

We also discover how sound and smell play a key role in the artist’s studio; from the soothing and inspiring music of the tanpura, to the perfumes Linder chooses for the space, and the evocative odours her process awakes from the pages of vintage magazines.

The pair also discuss Linder’s art; the evolution of her work, against a backdrop of changing media; the potential immediacy of her work and how it allows ideas to be realised very quickly; and the artists upon which she has drawn inspiration, from Salvador Dali to the enduring appeal of Aubrey Beardsley that has seen Linder return to drawing.

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