Monday 4 January 2016

Linder Sterling

Linder Sterling

Linder Sterling is an English visual artist, performance artist and musician from Liverpool. Linder is a well known radical feminist and a member of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene most well known for her photomontages which used images from pornographic magazines, women's fashion magazines and domestic magazines.

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Above is one of Linder's most well known pieces the cover for the single Orgasm Addict by the Buzzcocks. At that point men's magazines were either DIY, porn or cars and women's magazines were either fashion or domestic stuff. The only common denominator is the female body, Linder then took the images of the female body from both sets of magazines and made these montages which she felt highlighted cultural monstrosities at the time.
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 What I relate to the most with her work is her point about the cultural expectations of women and the treatment of the female body as a commodity. 

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Vikki Stevens is an emerging artist interested in many areas including body image, mental health and abstraction. Her latest series of work aims to show how images and perceptions of women are “put- together”/ manufactured, and how these images and perceptions affect how women feel about their own body image. Vikki’s ideas for her artwork are expressed in mediums such as paint, collage and sculptural objects, mostly incorporating repurposed images from magazines and found documents. Artists such as Tracey Emin and Hannah Hoch have a large influence on her work. Both the personal perspective and distorted images play a major part in creating pieces that discuss personal as well as cultural issues within mainly the western world/media sphere. Stevens is planning on developing her work into a more abstract sphere to investigate feelings that she has herself and how she can communicate them by using and developing abstract techniques, continuing with collage as a starting influence. Currently the materials and processes she has used in her past work and the work in development are having a large impact on how the work develops and the message behind the work is entirely open. Rather than having a stand out message Stevens is now moving towards a more indirect way of working, focusing more on feelings rather than statements. Current concerns within the work reflect how Stevens feels about herself in day-to-day life and how outside influences affect her and her work. More specifically Stevens is dealing with feelings of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and how she feels as an individual in the world. Artists such as Gerhard Richter, Barbara Kruger, Yago Hortal and Steve Salo are having a large impact on the current work in development.

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