The radical feminist artist describes her “magpie-like” practice 🌼 Linder
“In the mid to late 70s we were all so poor, none of us had studios so our work was made in tiny bedrooms. We never thought in terms of the ‘art world’ or art funding or representation – no galleries would even look at the work we were making at the time – so we were just thinking about how to get those images out into the world.
“‘Feminism’ used to be seen as a dirty, ugly word by mainstream media. When I was a teenager in a small village near Wigan feminism to me was the most glorious, wonderful and slightly occluded movement. I didn’t know anybody else who read the books I read or got excited about the ideas I was being exposed to. My experience of second wave feminism was a very solitary one, but it was so interwoven in my DNA.
“I’m very magpie-like. I’m always looking. I think it was Picasso who said ‘I do not seek, I find,’ and there’s often that sensation when you stop searching and then go into some charity shop somewhere and suddenly find the material. I always know exactly what excites me. It’s hard to articulate what it is but it can be many things: the look on somebody’s face in a portrait or something about somebody’s dress or the colour of the sky. There’s many aspects to an image that can draw me into it.
“In the late 1970s I was working with found images of women and I just came to a point when it felt fair that I should objectify myself and put myself in front of the camera, using myself as a found object. I think for women particularly that psychological trope doesn’t take that much imagination because we’re often being objectified – that sensation of being looked at or portrayed in a certain way.
“I’m rarely complacent, I always want to find different ways of making marks with lines or scalpels or a pot of enamel paint, thinking about how to make newness and new marks. I think generationally we had that delicious experience of the right to fail. I don’t think I knew when I was young what success was. The idea ofwas about creating pleasurable spaces for women.
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